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• Title:The sociable city : an American intellectual tradition / Jamin Creed Rowan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rowan, Jamin Creed, author.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
  

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  • Call Number: HT167 .R69 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
  City planning--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
  Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States--History--19th century.
  Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States--History--20th century.
  City and town life--United States--Psychological aspects--History--19th century.
  City and town life--United States--Psychological aspects--History--20th century.
  Public spaces--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
  Public spaces--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
  
• Description:195 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
  
• Summary:When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its inhabitants to "look closely upon others without sympathy," he was expressing what many in the United States had already been saying about the nascent urbanization that would continue to transform the nation's landscape: that the modern city dramatically changes the way individuals interact with and feel toward one another. An antiurbanist discourse would pervade American culture for years to come, echoing Olmsted's skeptical view of the emotional value of urban relationships. But as more and more people moved to the nation's cities, urbanists began to confront this pessimism about the ability of city dwellers to connect with one another. "The Sociable City" investigates the history of how American society has conceived of urban relationships and considers how these ideas have shaped the cities in which we live. As the city's physical and social landscapes evolved over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, urban intellectuals developed new vocabularies, narratives, and representational forms to express the social and emotional value of a wide variety of interactions among city dwellers. Turning to source materials often overlooked by scholars of urban life-including memoirs, plays, novels, literary journalism, and museum exhibits-Jamin Creed Rowan unearths an expansive body of work dedicated to exploring and advocating the social configurations made possible by the city.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780812249293 hardcover alkaline paper
  0812249291 hardcover alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Settlement Movement's Push for Public Sympathy
  ch. 2 New Deal Urbanism and the Contraction of Sympathy
  ch. 3 Literary Urbanists and the Interwar Development of Urban Sociability
  ch. 4 Ecology of Sociability in the Postwar City
  ch. 5 Jane Jacobs and the Consolidation of Urban Sociability.