Schuyler David. The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. — 251 p. — (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History).In one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential areas for growing cities.