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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: ERIC SANDWEISSPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.617kg ISBN: 9781566398862ISBN 10: 156639886 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 02 August 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents"CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Fenced-off Corners, Wider Settings, and the New American Landscape Part I: Laying the Groundwork 2. Lines on the Land: The Lingering Imprint of Colonial St. Louis 3. ""The Inhabitants of St. Louis"" and Their Land: Redefining Urban Order in Antebellum St. Louis Part II: Building the Fenced-Off Corners 4. Producers: The Evolution of the Private City-Building Process 5. Consumers: Everyday Space in Four Neighborhoods 6. Regulators: Public Improvements in the Urban Landscape Part III: Conceiving the Wider Setting 7. The Evolution of Civic Improvement and City Planning Ideals from 1890 to 1950 8. Epilogue: Rethinking the Contours of Community in the Declining City, 1950 to the Present Notes Index"ReviewsEric Sandweiss's book makes fascinating reading--not only for someone with a love of St. Louis history, but for anyone interested in thinking about the effect of past decisions upon the current state of American cities. --Vince Schoemehl, former Mayor of St. Louis Sandweiss deftly shows his readers how and why 'form' followed a wide range of functions--economic, political, and social--in St. Louis. [The book] offers a rich and satisfactory account of how city neighborhoods, and especially working-class neighborhoods, were built in the nineteenth century and what happened to them in the twentieth. Sandweiss makes a vital and original contribution to the history of the built environment and does so with unusual acuity, wit, and sympathy. --Elizabeth Blackmar, Professor of History, Columbia University In this superbly researched and carefully argued study, Eric Sandweiss presents the hidden history of spatial separation and social inequality in cities like St. Louis. Sandweiss shows how seemingly small decisions about ordinary aspects of urban life--like the placement of porches in the front or the back of buildings and the purchase of pavement from private or public funds--activate enduring and seeming irresolvable tensions in urban life. By showing how an unending capacity for change in urban areas frustrates abstract invocations of the common good as articulated by urban planners, Sandweiss directs our attention to more modest--but also more practical--plans for resolving conflicts between the interests of the 'fenced-off corners' of our cities and the needs of the 'wider setting.' --George Lipsitz, author of A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition (Temple) and Sidewalks of St. Louis Sandweiss engages with an impressive range of sources to tell this story of people's lived experiences and urban imaginations...St. Louis demonstrates how we can think deeply about the spatial dimensions of city life and urban development. --Urban History Eric Sandweiss's book makes fascinating reading-not only for someone with a love of St. Louis history, but for anyone interested in thinking about the effect of past decisions upon the current state of American cities. -Vince Schoemehl, former Mayor of St. Louis Sandweiss deftly shows his readers how and why 'form' followed a wide range of functions-economic, political, and social-in St. Louis. [The book] offers a rich and satisfactory account of how city neighborhoods, and especially working-class neighborhoods, were built in the nineteenth century and what happened to them in the twentieth. Sandweiss makes a vital and original contribution to the history of the built environment and does so with unusual acuity, wit, and sympathy. -Elizabeth Blackmar, Professor of History, Columbia University In this superbly researched and carefully argued study, Eric Sandweiss presents the hidden history of spatial separation and social inequality in cities like St. Louis. Sandweiss shows how seemingly small decisions about ordinary aspects of urban life-like the placement of porches in the front or the back of buildings and the purchase of pavement from private or public funds-activate enduring and seeming irresolvable tensions in urban life. By showing how an unending capacity for change in urban areas frustrates abstract invocations of the common good as articulated by urban planners, Sandweiss directs our attention to more modest-but also more practical-plans for resolving conflicts between the interests of the 'fenced-off corners' of our cities and the needs of the 'wider setting.' -George Lipsitz, author of A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition (Temple) and Sidewalks of St. Louis Sandweiss engages with an impressive range of sources to tell this story of people's lived experiences and urban imaginations...St. Louis demonstrates how we can think deeply about the spatial dimensions of city life and urban development. -Urban History Eric Sandweiss has written a history of city building in St. Louis from the political economy of land to the arrangement of rooms in apartments. Its ambitious chronology starts from the city's foundation in 1764 and extends more or less to the present, but the book focuses on the years 1850 to 1910, when most of St. Louis was built... In order to examine interrelations among a variety of scales-city, neighborhood, block, house, and room-Sandweiss looks in detail at South St. Louis and in even greater detail at several case study blocks. -Journal of American History In his well-researched account, Sandweiss uses archival sources, public documents, contemporary newspapers, and a wide variety of secondary materials. St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape is a thoughtful and provocative book that affords a new way of looking at the interaction between neighborhoods and city hall. Of special value is the linking of urban and suburban subdivisions. Sandweiss's work is an important addition to the challenging social urban history. -H-Net As the director of research at the Missouri Historical Society and a well-versed urban historian, [Sandweiss] is in a position to tell us a great deal. And he does. -The Public Historian ...Sandweiss's argument is powerful and persuasive. St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape is now required reading for anyone with an interest in St. Louis or the trans-Mississippi urban West. Moreover, as its subtitle hints, the book stands as a major contribution to the study of the American built environment. Indeed, this is among the most thoroughly researched and engaging studies of the city-building process since the publication of Sam Bass Warner's The Private City. -Journal of the American Planning Association Author InformationEric Sandweiss is the Director of Research at the Missouri Historical Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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