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9780814250266

Domesticating the Street

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814250266

  • ISBN10:

    0814250262

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr
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Summary

American city streets at the turn of the century were chaotic places where pedestrians, peddlers, vehicles, and playing children competed noisily for space. How did this scene disappear in so many urban areas, replaced by a modern streetscape dominated by traffic?

Author Biography

Peter C. Baldwin is an assistant professor of history at DePaul University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vi
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: The View from State House Square 1(10)
Horace Bushnell and the Origins of Segregated Space
11(23)
Purifying the City
34(30)
The Fight against the Vice District
64(29)
Saving the Newsies
93(23)
Segregating the Parks
116(31)
``The Children Are Off the Streets''
147(30)
Expressmen and Peddlers
177(24)
Creating a Traffic System
201(29)
City Plans
230(31)
Of Hartford Seen in a Different Light
261(6)
Notes 267(82)
Index 349

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