Philadelphia versus Baltimore : City Planning and Aesthetic Character in Two Antebellum American Cities
Material type: ArticlePublication details: Sage 2019Description: Vol 55, Issue 3, 2019 : (212-234 p.)Subject(s): Online resources: In: Journal of planning historySummary: Philadelphia and Baltimore, close economic rivals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had strikingly different processes of planning, patterns of growth, and resulting urban characters. This article examines these aspects of the two cities and elucidates them with travelers’ comments and urban views of the period and the aesthetic theory underlying these viewpoints.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Philadelphia and Baltimore, close economic rivals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had strikingly different processes of planning, patterns of growth, and resulting urban characters. This article examines these aspects of the two cities and elucidates them with travelers’ comments and urban views of the period and the aesthetic theory underlying these viewpoints.
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