Urban Linkages: America's Cities

Abstract

James Borchert. Alley Life in Washington: Family. Community. Religion and Folklife in the City. 1850-1970. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1980. 326 + xiv pp. David R. Goldfield. Urban Growth in the Age of Sectionalism: Virginia. 1846-1861. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1977.336 + xxx pp. Judd Kahn. Imperial San Francisco: Politics and Planning in an American City, 1897-1906. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1979. 263 + xii pp. Roberta Balstad Miller. City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. Westport. Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1979. 179 + xiv pp. Allan Pred. Urban Growth and City Sytems in the United States. 1840-1860. Cambridge. Mass: Harvard University Press. 1980. 282 + xvii pp. John C. Schneider. Detroit and the Problem of Order. 1830-1880: A Geography of Crime. Riot and Policing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1980. 170 4- xv pp. Three of these books deal with various aspects of urban growth in America in the period prior to the Civil War. A fourth uses the growth theme as a mechanism to examine politics and planning at the turn of the twentieth century, and the final two deal with what might be termed the social consequences of that growth, i.e. the interrelated problems of crime, order and community building. Looked at in a slightly different way, the first trio of books deals largely with the external relations of a city or group of cities, while the final three focus upon the internal relationship, or urban ecology, of their respective cities.