The Human Tradition in Urban America

The Human Tradition in Urban America offers an intimate telling of America's evolution into an urban nation through the experiences of individuals. This book considers the growth of American cities by carefully looking at the lives of those people-s

Introduction	p. xi
Jeremiah Dummer: From Puritan Son to Worldly Gentleman	p. 1
Andrew Jackson Downing: Promoter of City Parks and Suburbs	p. 19
Francis L. Cardozo: An Early African American Urban Educator	p. 37
Alexander R. Shepherd: The Haussmannization of Washington, DC	p. 53
Frank Julian Sprague: The Father of Electric Urban Mass Transit in the United States	p. 71
Charles A. Comiskey: Baseball as American Pastime and Tragedy	p. 87
Lillian Wald: Meeting the Needs of Neighborhoods, 1893-1933	p. 103
Billy Sunday: Urban Prophet of Hope	p. 119
Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Frenzied Philanthropist	p. 135
Catherine Bauer: The Struggle for Modern Housing in America, 1930-1960	p. 153
Robert Moses: Relentless Progressive	p. 171
Coleman A. Young: Race and the Reshaping of Postwar Urban Politics	p. 187
Elizabeth Virrick: The "Concrete Monsters" and Housing Reform in Postwar Miami	p. 205
Index	p. 225
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