Review Essay: The American Patrician City and Its Legacy

John M. Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940 ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 6.

Robert Fishman , Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (New York : Basic Books, 1987), 117-18.

See Alan Dawley , Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977); Sean Wilentz , Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984); Susan Hirsch , Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978). This is a small sample of books published in the fifteen years after 1975 built around the theme of artisans-into-workers, as Bruce Laurie summed it up in Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Hill and Wang , 1989).

Paul Johnson , A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978); Stephanie Shaw , City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the Nineteenth-Century City (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

Sam Bass Warner, Jr. , The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987), 63. Thomas H. O'Connor , The Athens of America: Boston, 1825-1845 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006). Sociologist/historian E. Digby Baltzell memorably developed the notion of a WASP establishment derived from an old urban patrician class. See, for example, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia : Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership ( New York: The Free Press, 1979).

Warner, The Private City, chap. 7. Also, Michael Feldberg , The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study in Ethnic Conflict (Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1975); and Paul A. Gilje , The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987). Among recent books that develop the theme of the volatile antebellum American city: Frank Towers , The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004); and Tyler Anbinder , Five Points: The New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum (New York: Penguin, 2001).

Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992). On Georgian urban refinement in Great Britain: John Summerson, Georgian London (1945, reprinted London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1988); A. J. Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1966); and Mark Girouard, The English Town: A History of Urban Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990). See as well Donald J. Olsen: Town Planning in London: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964); and Olsen, The Growth of Victorian London (New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1976).

Donald J. Olsen, The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986).

See, for example, Carl Abbott , Political Terrain: Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), chap. 2.

Richard Longstreth , "Adolf Cluss, the World, and Washington," in Adolf Cluss , Architect: From Germany to America, ed. Alan Lessoff and Christof Mauch (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005), 105-107.

The Library of Congress has complete a huge amount of the online project that Capital Drawings advertises and supports, but some major portions of the project have yet to appear as of this writing (August 2007). The appendix explains how to begin searching the online catalog at http://www.loc.gov/rr/print. To date, only one of the projected architect biographies-of the Capitol's William Thornton-and only one of the planned supporting essays-on residential architecture by Pamela Scott-have made it online at http://www.loc .gov/rr/print/adecenter/biogess.html.

A. Joan Saab , "Historical Amnesia: New Urbanism and the City of Tomorrow," Journal of Planning History 6 (2007): 193-213.

Shaw, City Building on the Eastern Frontier. See also, Elizabeth Blackmar , "Worlds We Have Lost," Journal of Planning History 6 (2007): 272-78.