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American Urban Form

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Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore,
American Urban Form: A Representative History

American Urban Form

A Representative History

Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore

drawings by Andrew H. Whittemore

The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

2012 Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Warner, Sam Bass, 1928

American urban form : a representative history / Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore ; drawings by Andrew H. Whittemore.

p. cm. (Urban and industrial environments)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-262-01721-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-262-30092-6 (retail e-book)

1. Cities and townsUnited StatesHistory. 2. City and town lifeUnited StatesHistory. I. Whittemore, Andrew H., 1980 II. Title.

HT123.W228 2012

307.760973dc23

2011033010

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For Diana, Carole, and John

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Acknowledgments

In the years since we began working on this project, many people have helped and encouraged us. The Young Research Library at the University of California Los Angeles proved a valuable resource, as did the Rotch Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its skilled librarians Peter Cohn and Ann Whiteside. Professors Eugenie Ladner Birch at the University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence Vale and Eran Ben-Joseph at MIT, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris at UCLA have given readings, support, and encouragement. Albert La Farge, our agent, has made important suggestions for improvement, as did Diana J. Kleiner who has read several versions with great care and perspicacity. We would also like to thank Clay Morgan at the MIT Press.