TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mooney-Melvin,Patricia
TI  - The organic city: urban definition & community organization, 1880-1920 
SN  - 9780813163918
AV  - HN90 .O743 1987
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Lexington, KY
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Phillips, Wilbur C.,
KW  - Community organization
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Community development, Urban
KW  - Neighborhoods
KW  - City planning
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgment; Introduction; 1 Neighborhood in the Organic City; 2 Infant Health and Neighborhood Organization; 3 The Social Unit Theory of Organization; 4 The Social Unit Comes to Cincinnati; 5 An Experiment in Neighborhood Health Care; 6 Politics and the Social Unit, 1919-1920; 7 Metropolitan Community to Fragmented Metropolis, 1920-1940; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; 2; b
N2  - During the late nineteenth century rapid social and economic changes negated the prevailing conception of the city as a uniform whole. Confronted with this disparity between the old urban definition and the new city of the late nineteenth century, social thinkers searched for a new concept that would correspond more closely to the divided urban community around them. Borrowing an analogy from natural history, these thinkers conceived of the city as an organism composed of interdependent neighborhoods and sought to translate this concept into ways of dealing with the dislocations and problems i
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