Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits: Great Cities of North America Since 1600

by James T. Lemon

On the agricultural frontier and through technological progress, the descendants of North America's pioneers have sought to fulfill their dreams of improvement. Through business, governments, and other bodies, city dwellers expedited these desires by organizing settlement, communications, trade, finance, and manufacturing. In turn, cities grew mightily. To assess the present condition of cities, this book focuses on five large North American cities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195407938
• ISBN13: 9780195407938
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages