RYBCZYNSKI, WITOLD - City Life - Urban Expectations in a New World

New York, Harper Collins. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002550628). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine non-price clipped dustjacket. The author is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and an acclaimed writer of cultural and domestic history. In this book he examines what we want from cities, how they have evolved and what accounts for their unique identities, from early Colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper, from changes wrought by technology, transportation and telecommunication and how urban spaces have been shaped by landscape and lifestyle. Marvelous detail of such cities as Montreal, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Savannah, Boston, New Orleans and Charleston. B2C. Fine/Fine.

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