The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer P

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In this second edition, America’s Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has bee

In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast a

This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social history of urban America since 1950, covering