Description
Book SynopsisTrade 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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
