When this book was written, the postworld war ii suburban boom and white exodus from our central cities. From 1890 to the 1920s, the streetcar dominated urban transportation. Unlike railroad suburbs which grew in nodes around rail stations, streetcar suburbs formed continuous corridors. In the last third of the nineteenth century boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to the modern divided metropolis. Download this page pdf download left page pdf download right page pdf download whole book pdf partner login required text only views. Vance paid close attention to the geographic patterning of economic and demographic factors across places. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuter suburbs. Urban spatial structure alex anas, richard arnott, and.
Because the streetcar made numerous stops spaced at short intervals, developers platted rectilinear subdivisions where homes, generally on small lots, were built within a five or 10minute walk of the streetcar line. A comparative analysis of brookland and brightwood, 18701900 pdf m. The process of growth in boston 18701900, by sam bass warner, jr. With electric streetcar lines, cities could now expand beyond the normal two mile walking radius. He was especially interested in what set the american south apart from the rest of america. In his 1962 book streetcar suburbs, sam bass warner, jr. In the last third of the 19th century boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to a modern divided metropolis.
For a generation sam warner has written about american urban history by. Sam bass warner, modeling the streetcar suburbs, 1962. Toward the turn of the century subways further contributed to this pattern in the largest cities. I recently read the the classic social history, streetcar suburbs by sam bass warner, which analyzes the transportation, financial, architectural, and social trends that created streetcar suburbs, with close attention to three neighborhoods outside of downtown boston roxbury, west roxbury, and dorchester. This 208page paperback is the work of sam bass warner, jr.
Warner is the author of planning for a nation of cities 0. Drawing on sam bass warner s classic study of boston in streetcar suburbs 1978, bower focuses on the whitecollar cherokee triangle suburb at the eastern end of louisvilles broadway trolley line. Publications of the joint center for urban studies, journa. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how. Again the structure of the present economy is such that the mexicans manual labor. A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly.
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