{"product_id":"the-private-city-9780812212433","title":"The Private City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[This book] serves, in a way which no other city biography can claim to, as the historical analogy of urban America.\" * \u003ci\u003eUrban Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Written with intelligent elegance and candor. . . . A fascinating book.\" * \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A splendidly economical and enlightening piece of urban history. . . . Contributes more than an important remedial lesson in the cultural foundation of the urban crisis.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Institute of Planners Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Intorduction to the Second Edition\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TOWN\u003cbr\u003e 1- The Environment of Private Opportunity\u003cbr\u003e 2- War and the Limits of the Tradition\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO: THE BIG CITY 1830-1860\u003cbr\u003e 3- Spatial Patterns of Rapid Growth\u003cbr\u003e 4- Industrialization\u003cbr\u003e 5- The Specialization of Leadership\u003cbr\u003e 6- Municipal Institutions\u003cbr\u003e 7- Riots and the Restoration of Public Order\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE: THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS\u003cbr\u003e 8- The Structure of the Metropolis\u003cbr\u003e 9- Some Metropolitan Districts\u003cbr\u003e 10- The Industrial Metropolis as an Inheritance\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography of Recent Philadelphia Books\u003cbr\u003e Notes to Tables in Text\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405688250711,"sku":"9780812212433","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812212433.jpg?v=1730493282","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-private-city-9780812212433","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}