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Urban Culture: Forming urban culture: environmental perception and design in nineteenth-century America: A review essay*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2009

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Review Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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Footnotes

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Patricia Mooney Melvin, The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization 1880–1920. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987. xii + 173pp, notes, bibliographic essay, index.

David Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986; paperback edn, 1988. xiv + 195pp, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, index.

John R. Stilgoe, Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820–1939. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. xiv + 308pp, notes, bibliography, index.

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Notes

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