Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, 1969-

America's urban history [electronic resource] / Lisa Krissoff Boehm and Steven H. Corey. - New York : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (xi, 413 p.) : ill., maps, plan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Pre-colonial and seventeenth-century Native American settlements -- 2. Transplanting cities and urban networks : Spain, France, and the Netherlands in colonial America, 1565-1821 -- 3. City, plantation, metropolis : the Anglo-American urban experience, 1587-1800 -- 4. An urban frontier : the American west, 1800-1869 -- 5. The urban cauldron : city growth and the rise of social reform, 1820-1920 -- 6. The urban nation : middletown and metropolis, 1920-1932 -- 7. New deal, new cities : the 1930s -- 8. War and postwar metropolis : cities, suburbs, and exurbs, 1940s-1950s -- 9. The frontier of imagination : American cities in the 1960s -- 10. Attempting revival and renaissance : the 1970s-1980s -- 11. The modern city : fear, technology, and inequality, 1990-present.

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Cities and towns--History.--United States