03857nam 2200529 450 991079324730332120230126220753.01-4773-1784-810.7560/317839(CKB)4100000007211124(MiAaPQ)EBC5613346(DE-B1597)587457(OCoLC)1269269431(DE-B1597)9781477317846(EXLCZ)99410000000721112420190102d2019 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTaking the land to make the city a bicoastal history of North America /Mary P. RyanFirst edition.Austin :University of Texas Press,2019.1 online resource (465 pages)Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices1-4773-1783-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1. Taking the land -- Before the land was taken -- The British and the Americans take the Chesapeake -- The land of San Francisco Bay: cleared but not taken -- pt. 2. Making the municipality: the city and the pueblo -- Erecting Baltimore into a city : democracy as urban space, 1796-1819 -- Shaping the spaces of California : ranchos, plazas and pueblos, 1821-1846 -- pt. 3. Making the modern capitalist city -- Making Baltimore a modern city, 1828-1854 -- The capitalist "pueblo" : selling San Francisco 1847-1856 -- pt. 4. These united cities -- Baltimore, San Francisco and the Civil War -- Epilogue.The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities played an equally important role in the country’s formation. Towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as Spaniards and Englishmen took Indian land and converted it into private property. In this reworking of early American history, Mary P. Ryan shows how cities—specifically San Francisco and Baltimore—were essential parties to the creation of the republics of the United States and Mexico. Baltimore and San Francisco share common roots as early trading centers whose coastal locations immersed them in an international circulation of goods and ideas. Ryan traces their beginnings back to the first human habitation of each area, showing how the juggernaut toward capitalism and nation-building could not commence until Europeans had taken the land for city building. She then recounts how Mexican ayuntamientos and Anglo American city councils pioneered a prescient form of municipal sovereignty that served as both a crucible for democracy and a handmaid of capitalism. Moving into the nineteenth century, Ryan shows how the citizens of Baltimore and San Francisco molded landscape forms associated with the modern city: the gridded downtown, rudimentary streetcar suburbs, and outlying great parks. This history culminates in the era of the Civil War when the economic engines of cities helped forge the East and the West into one nation.City planningCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistoryCity planningMarylandBaltimoreHistorySocial changeEnvironmental aspectsSan Francisco (Calif.)History19th centuryBaltimore (Md.)History19th centuryCity planningHistory.City planningHistory.Social changeEnvironmental aspects.979.4/6104Ryan Mary P.939751MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793247303321Taking the land to make the city3771014UNINA