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 Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Lemon, James T. Publisher: Oxford, Don Mills, Canada Year Published: 1996 Pages: 341pp Price: $32.95 ISBN: 0-19-540793-8 Library of Congress Number: HT122.L45 1996 Dewey: 307.76'4'097 An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975). Table of Contents: List of figures Preface Acknoledgements Chapter 1: Today's stagnating metropolises: unravelling in cyberspace? Chapter 2: Urban influnces: persisten and changing forces since 1600 Chapter 3: Franklin's Philadelphia in 1760: fulfilling European peasant dreams Chapter 4: New York in the ascendancy, 1860: unheard of riches and squalor Chapter 5: Chicago, 1910: the civic moment and the new middle class Chapter 6: Los Angeles, 1950: the working class thriving on Military lergesse Chapter 7: Toronto, 1975: the alternative future Chapter 8: Great cities in North America: their past, their future Notes Selcted bibliography Index Subject Headings
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