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The Private City

The Private City

Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth

by Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press

Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press

288 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, illus.

Paperback
9780812212433
Published: June 1987

£22.99

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Contents
Praise

This award-winning book charts the unfolding, from the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression, of the American tradition of city building and city living, using Philadelphia as a resonant example.

Acknowledgments
Intorduction to the Second Edition

PART ONE: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TOWN
1- The Environment of Private Opportunity
2- War and the Limits of the Tradition

PART TWO: THE BIG CITY 1830-1860
3- Spatial Patterns of Rapid Growth
4- Industrialization
5- The Specialization of Leadership
6- Municipal Institutions
7- Riots and the Restoration of Public Order

PART THREE: THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS
8- The Structure of the Metropolis
9- Some Metropolitan Districts
10- The Industrial Metropolis as an Inheritance

Bibliography of Recent Philadelphia Books
Notes to Tables in Text

"Packed with suggestive historical detail."-American Historical Review

"With a skillful use of carefully researched detail, Warner relates the transformation from a handicraft to a factory system of production to the pervasive quest for private gain, and shows how that basic objective restricted the city's response to such community needs as education, health, and welfare. . . . His book is packed with suggestive historical detail."-American Historical Review

"[This book] serves, in a way which no other city biography can claim to, as the historical analogy of urban America."-Urban Studies

"Written with intelligent elegance and candor. . . . A fascinating book."-Times Literary Supplement

"A splendidly economical and enlightening piece of urban history. . . . Contributes more than an important remedial lesson in the cultural foundation of the urban crisis."-American Institute of Planners Journal