The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization 1880-1920 - Paperback

by Patricia Mooney Melvin (Author)

During the late nineteenth century rapid social and economic changes negated the prevailing conception of the city as a uniform whole. Confronted with this disparity between the old urban definition and the new city of the late nineteenth century, social thinkers searched for a new concept that would correspond more closely to the divided urban community around them. Borrowing an analogy from natural history, these thinkers conceived of the city as an organism composed of interdependent neighbor

Author Biography

Patricia Mooney Melvin is associate professor and coordinator of the public history program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.