Investigated are the origins of two types of city parks, the large landscape park of the Victorian Era (1840-1890) and the small playground parks of the Progressive Era (1890-1920). Their spatial patterns of diffusion among large cities
in the United States are mapped. Both types of parks, although serving different clientele, started in the industrial cities of northeastern United States. - (SLD)
Author revisits the Garrison Creek sewer scandal to argue that corruption, shoddy workmanship, and patronage deserve to be considered in the history of the city-building process of the North American city during the nineteenth century
. In this instance, several city officials and the contractor were held legally responsible for the construction of the sewer at the wrong grade and with inferior bricks and mortar. - (SLD)
Noisome, noxious, and offensive vapors, fumes and stenches in American towns and cities, 1840-1865
City and the Environment
and business activities. The source of the several dozen cases is West's American Digest, Century Edition (1897). The sources of industrial stenches in New York City are located via old sanitary district maps. - (SLD)
A case study of how a private company initiated a public infrastructure project along a stretch of the northern bank of the St. Lawrence River around Point St. Charles. The dealings between the anglophone and francophone city council members
California ; Garden city ; Historical geography ; Industrialization ; Los Angeles ; Racism ; Suburbs ; United States of America ; Urban environment ; Urban planning