New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design: 15 Illustrated Tours

by Elizabeth Mills Brown

Book Overview

In the nineteenth century New Haven was known as one of America's most beautiful cities. This reputation rested partly on its once-famous elms and partly on a certain quality of urban grace that long characterized the city. Starting with the original town plan of the famous Nine Squares, this concern for urban design has been a continuing tradition for three centuries, highlighted by the layout of the Green in Federal period, by the creation pf handsome...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300019939
• ISBN13: 9780300019933
• Release Date: September 1976
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"