The Evolution of American Urban Society

by Chudacoff, Howard P.; Smith, Judith E.; Baldwin, Peter C.

• ISBN13: 9780136015710
• ISBN10: 0136015719
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-20
• Publisher: Pearson

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Author Biography

New co-author, Peter Baldwin of the University of Connecticut

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Urban America in the Colonial age, 1500-1776	p. 1
Urban Beginnings	p. 1
Problems of Growth	p. 9
The Social Mosaic	p. 14
Cities in the American Revolution	p. 23
Bibliography	p. 30
Notes	p. 30
Urban Expansion in the New Nation, 1776-1860	p. 32
Cities in the New Republic	p. 33
Revolution in Transportation and the Economy	p. 35
Boosterism	p. 40
Beginning of Urban Industrialism	p. 42
Societal Effects of Economic Change	p. 44
Problems of Growth	p. 47
Bibliography	p. 54
Notes	p. 56
Life in the Walking City, 1820-1865	p. 57
The Walking City	p. 57
Social Complexity and Contested Terrain	p. 60
Immigrants	p. 64
Rootless Men and Women	p. 67
Urban Politics	p. 68
Cities and the Civil War	p. 72
Bibliography	p. 74
Notes	p. 75
Industrialization and the Changing Space of the City, 1865-1920	p. 76
The Quickening pace of Industrialization	p. 77
The Growth of Mass transit	p. 80
The Geography of the Streetcar City	p. 86
The Geography of Leisure: Parks and Commercial Amusements	p. 94
Population Mobility	p. 98
Bibliography	p. 99
Notes	p. 101
Newcomers and the Urban Core, 1865-1920	p. 102
Waves of Immigration	p. 104
Rural Americans Move to the City	p. 110
Housing and Health	p. 113
Coping With inner-City Life	p. 119
Patterns of Social Mobility	p. 123
Bibliography	p. 129
Notes	p. 131
Bosses and reformers in City Politics, 1870-1920	p. 132
Origins of the Machine	p. 132
Structure and Functions of the Machine	p. 133
Some Notable Cases	p. 137
City Governance and Municipal Reform	p. 144
Goals and Tactics of Municipal Reform	p. 146
Bibliography	p. 146
Reforming the Social and Physical Environment, 1870-1920	p. 152
Impulses of Social Reform	p. 152
Remedies of Social Reform	p. 156
Planning and Engineering the City	p. 165
Reform Becomes Progressivism	p. 169
The rise of Urban Liberalism	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 173
Notes	p. 174
Cities in an Age of Metropolitanism: The 1920s and 1930s	p. 175
New Urban Growth	p. 175
Suburbanization and Metropolitanism	p. 179
Cities and Consumer Culture	p. 186
Cities as a Cultural Battleground	p. 189
Urban Politics in the 1920s	p. 195
The Great depression	p. 196
Political and social Life in the 1930s	p. 206
Bibliography	p. 212
Notes	p. 214
The Emerging "Urban Crisis," 1941-1975	p. 215
The Impact of World War II on Cities	p. 215
Postwar Suburban Growth	p. 218
Racial Transition in Urban Neighborhoods	p. 223
Urban Renewal and its Consequences	p. 228
Currents of Protest	p. 234
Changes in Urban Politics	p. 240
Bibliography	p. 244
Notes	p. 246
New Hope and New Concerns in the American City	p. 247
Deindustrialization and Financial Crisis	p. 247
The Decline of Federal Urban Policy	p. 250
Dual Cities: Rich and Poor in a Changing Economy	p. 252
Privatization, Gambling, and Tourism	p. 258
The federal Government and the Cities in the 1990s and 2000s	p. 261
Revitalization and Gentrification	p. 264
Immigration and Diversity	p. 268
Changing Suburbs	p. 272
The Disasters in New York and New Orleans	p. 275
Bibliography	p. 278
Notes	p. 281
Photo Credits	p. 282
Index	p. 284
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