Description
<p>Contents</p><p></p><p>List of Illustrations	</p><p>Acknowledgments	</p><p></p><p>Introduction	</p><p></p><p>City</p><p>1	The Origins of Penn’s Squares	</p><p>2	Patterns of Growth and Governance in the Centre City	</p><p></p><p>Suburb</p><p>3	The Liberty Lands	</p><p>4	Suburban Villas in the Schuylkill Valley	</p><p>5	Nurseries of National Virtue: Private Estates and Public Culture	</p><p>6	Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Origins of the American Picturesque	</p><p></p><p>Consolidation</p><p>7	Reviving Penn’s Plan	</p><p>8	The Fairmount Water Works: Picturing Civic Virtue	</p><p>9	Rural Cemeteries, River Parks, and the Search for Rational Recreation	</p><p>10	Greening the Consolidated City	</p><p>11	The Fairmount Park Commission: Park Building for Preservation and Conservation	</p><p>12	Spatial Politics and the Centennial Exhibition	</p><p>13	A Work Unfinished	</p><p></p><p>Notes	</p><p>Bibliography	</p><p>Index	</p><p></p>
Reviews
“The Grid and the River unveils the timeless and dynamic tension between nature and the city. In an increasingly urban world, this book is essential reading for those who can still see a future graced by green and wholesome cities.”
—Bruce Stephenson, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography