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When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the'restraining and confining conditions'of the city compelled its inhabitants to'look closely upon others without sympathy,'he was expressing what many in the United States had already been saying about the nascent urbanization that would continue to transform the nation's landscape: that the modern city dramatically changes the way individuals interact with and feel toward one another. An antiurbanist discourse would pervade American culture for years to come, echoing Olmsted's skeptical view of the emotional value of urban relationships. But as more and more people moved to the nation's cities, urbanists began to confront this pessimism about the ability of city dwellers to connect with one another.The Sociable City investigates the history of how American society has conceived of urban relationships and considers how these ideas have shaped the cities in which we live. As the city's physical and social landscapes evolved over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, urban intellectuals developed new vocabularies, narratives, and representational forms to express the social and emo

Author

Jamin Creed Rowan

Publisher

(PENN) University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812294156

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science