The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization 1880-1920

During the late nineteenth century rapid social and economic changes negated the prevailing conception of the city as a uniform whole. Confronted with this disparity between the old urban definition and the new city of the late nineteenth century, social thinkers searched for a new concept that would correspond more closely to the divided urban community around them. Borrowing an analogy from natural history, these thinkers conceived of the city as an organism composed of interdependent neighbor

Author: Patricia Mooney Melvin
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780813153773

About the Author

Patricia Mooney Melvin is associate professor and coordinator of the public history program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

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