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The Private City

Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth

Sam Bass Warner, Jr author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Published:1st Jun '87

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This award-winning book charts the unfolding, from the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression, of the American tradition of city building and city living, using Philadelphia as a resonant example.

"Packed with suggestive historical detail."—American Historical 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

  • Winner of American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Award 1969

ISBN: 9780812212433

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

288 pages

2nd edition