The organic city urban definition & community organization, 1880-1920 / Patricia Mooney Melvin.

By:

Mooney-Melvin, Patricia [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813163918

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HN90 .O743 1987

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Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HN90.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn900345088

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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