City Building on the Eastern Frontier Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City

America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the "rage for erecting villages...

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Main Author: Shaw, Diane (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004
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