Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925 - Hardcover

Reps, John W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826204163 ISBN 13: 9780826204165

Publisher: University of Missouri, 1984

Synopsis

A catalog of lithographs of American and Canadian cities

About this title

About the Author:

John W. Reps is Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University.  He is the author of numerous works including The Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning in the American West before 1890 (University of Missouri Press, 1982);  Cities of the American West:  A History of Frontier Urban Planning (Princeton University Press, 1979). for which he received the Albert J. Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association; and Town Planning in Frontier America (Princeton University Press, 1965; paper edition, University of Missouri Press, 1979).

Review:

"These 4,480 views provide a remarkable record of American townscape for a century, and that record is made more accessible, more valuable and infinitely more enjoyable with the publication of John Reps's magnificent Views and Viewmakers of Urban America"--New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Missouri
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0826204163
• ISBN 13: 9780826204165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 588