LEADER 03857nam 2200529 450 001 9910807043503321 005 20230126220753.0 010 $a1-4773-1784-8 024 7 $a10.7560/317839 035 $a(CKB)4100000007211124 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5613346 035 $a(DE-B1597)587457 035 $a(OCoLC)1269269431 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477317846 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007211124 100 $a20190102d2019 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTaking the land to make the city $ea bicoastal history of North America /$fMary P. Ryan 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (465 pages) 225 0 $aLateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices 311 $a1-4773-1783-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aCity planning$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory 606 $aCity planning$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory 606 $aSocial change$xEnvironmental aspects 607 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aBaltimore (Md.)$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory. 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial change$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a979.4/6104 700 $aRyan$b Mary P.$0939751 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807043503321 996 $aTaking the land to make the city$94120740 997 $aUNINA