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The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America

By Christine Meisner Rosen

Book information

Year
1986
ISBN
0521303192, 9780521303194, 0521545706, 9780521545709, 9780511471056
LCC
HT371 .R67 1986
Open Library ID
OL3027307M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12968404 bytes)
Pages
418\408
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Исторические дисциплины;История стран Европы и Аме

Description

Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately built cities. This book examines these rebuildings, using each to examine in close detail the process of city growth. The massive population growth and economic expansion of the nineteenth century necessitated that every aspect of the urban environment be redeveloped. Yet, at virtually every stage of city growth, the achievement of environmental adaptation lagged significantly behind the need for change. The innovative features of this book will make it useful to all readers interested in city growth. By drawing on several fields of the social sciences, the author develops a conceptual framework for explaining the barriers to environmental improvement; and through the historical narrative, the usefulness of this framework is demonstrated.

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