Making the American City: Form and Society

Harvard HKS

To understand today’s urgent social, environmental, and development issues, Making the American City: Form and Society explores the history of American urban growth, planning, and design. By examining specific plans and places, it traces the growth and elaboration of major North American cities from the early European settlement to the present, with an emphasis on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through the study of plans, physical projects, and material conditions, the…