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The Limits of Power
Christine Meisner Rosen
其他書名
Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2003-12-04
主題
History / United States / General
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN
0521545706
9780521545709
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GYF6x8F41NcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.