Philadelphia versus Baltimore : City Planning and Aesthetic Character in Two Antebellum American Cities
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ArticlePublication details: Sage 2019Description: Vol 55, Issue 3, 2019 : (212-234 p.)Subject(s): Online resources:
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Journal of planning historySummary: Philadelphia and Baltimore, close economic rivals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had strikingly different processes of planning, patterns of growth, and resulting urban characters. This article examines these aspects of the two cities and elucidates them with travelers’ comments and urban views of the period and the aesthetic theory underlying these viewpoints.
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Philadelphia and Baltimore, close economic rivals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had strikingly different processes of planning, patterns of growth, and resulting urban characters. This article examines these aspects of the two cities and elucidates them with travelers’ comments and urban views of the period and the aesthetic theory underlying these viewpoints.
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