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Some U.S. states currently have an urban percentage around or above 90%, an urbanization rate almost unheard of a century ago. The states of Maine and Vermont have bucked the trend towards greater urbanization which is exhibited throughout the rest of the United States. Maine's highest urban percentage ever was less than 52% (in 1950), and ...
Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742 (1938) Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 (1955) Brownell, Blaine A. and Goldfield, David R. The City in southern history: The growth of urban civilization in the South (1977) Conn, Steven.
The concept of Arturo Soria's of the linear city model and the "linear city movement" Ebenezer Howard's influential 1902 diagram, illustrating urban growth through garden city "off-shoots" Hampstead Garden Suburb. The first major urban planning theorist in Britain was Sir Ebenezer Howard, who initiated the garden city movement in 1898.
By the late 19th century, urban and rural governments had systems in place for welfare to the poor and incapacitated. Progressives argued these needs deserved a higher priority. [134] Local public assistance programs were reformed to try to keep families together. [135]
The concept of urban renewal as a method for social reform emerged in England as a reaction to the increasingly cramped and unsanitary conditions of the urban poor in the rapidly industrializing cities of the 19th century. The agenda that emerged was a progressive doctrine that assumed better housing conditions would reform its residents ...
The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century (Routledge, 2014); The later medieval city: 1300-1500 (Routledge, 2014) Platt, Harold L. Building the Urban Environment: Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America (Temple University Press, 2015). 301 pp.
In the late 19th century, the island's schist bedrock encouraged the early skyscrapers whose successors characterize its skyline today. The Great Blizzard of 1888 exposed the vulnerability of the urban infrastructure connecting those buildings, encouraging the undergrounding of electric and telephone lines, and plans were made for a subway line.
Five Points: the 19th-century New York City neighborhood that invented tap dance, stole elections, and became the world's most notorious slum (2001) Binder, Frederick M., and David M. Reimers. All the nations under heaven: an ethnic and racial history of New York City (1995) Burns, Ric, and James Sanders.