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Towns in Societies: Essays in Economic History and Historical Sociology Philip Abrams E. A. Wrigley Six English Towns Alec Clifton-Taylor The Syntax of Cities Peter F. Smith New Towns. Their Origins, Achievements, Progress Frederick J. Osborn Arnold Whittick
1981
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH)
The western town evolved as the planned entity of some individual, group, church, railroad, corporation, or governmental agency. Towns were laid out by land surveyors, engineers, military officers, and speculative real estate developers. The gridiron street system dominated. Nearly every town plan and topographic view used by Reps in Cities of the American West depicts an urban place substantially formed in the geometry of the "checkerboard" idea. The illustrations also show that each town had
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