Title The sociable city : an American intellectual tradition / Jamin Creed Rowan

Edition 1st edition Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017

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Description 1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America Arts and intellectual life in modern America. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Finding Fellow-Feeling in the City -- Chapter 1. The Settlement Movement's Push for Public Sympathy -- Chapter 2. New Deal Urbanism and the Contraction of Sympathy -- Chapter 3. Literary Urbanists and the Interwar Development of Urban Sociability -- Chapter 4. The Ecology of Sociability in the Postwar City -- Chapter 5. Jane Jacobs and the Consolidation of Urban Sociability -- Conclusion. The Future of Urban Sociability -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its inhabitants to "look closely upon others without sympathy," he was expressing what many in the United States had already been saying about the nascent urbanization that would continue to transform the nation's landscape: that the modern city dramatically changes the way individuals interact with and feel toward one another. An antiurbanist discourse would pervade American culture for years to come, echoing Olmsted's skeptical view of the emotional value of urban relationships. But as more and more people moved to the nation's cities, urbanists began to confront this pessimism about the ability of city dwellers to connect with one another. "The Sociable City" investigates the history of how American society has conceived of urban relationships and considers how these ideas have shaped the cities in which we live. As the city's physical and social landscapes evolved over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, urban intellectuals developed new vocabularies, narratives, and representational forms to express the social and emotional value of a wide variety of interactions among city dwellers. Turning to source materials often overlooked by scholars of urban life--including memoirs, plays, novels, literary journalism, and museum exhibits--Jamin Creed Rowan unearths an expansive body of work dedicated to exploring and advocating the social configurations made possible by the city Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-186) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject City planning -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century City planning -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States -- History -- 20th century City and town life -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century City and town life -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century Public spaces -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century Public spaces -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. Public spaces -- Social aspects City and town life -- Psychological aspects City planning -- Social aspects Urban ecology (Sociology) Stadt Verstädterung Interaktion United States USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016050508 ISBN 9780812294156 0812294157

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