Shaw, Diane — City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City

Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Teal cloth, teal & BW illus. dust jacket, 217 pp. 57 BW illus. "Examines the ways in which these new cities [of Rochester and Syracuse, New York] were shaped by a variety of constituents -- founders, merchants, politicians, and settlers -- as opportunities to extend the commercial and social benefits of the market economy and a merchant culture to America's interior. At the same time, [the book] analyzes how these priorities resulted in a new approach to urban planning. Includes archival photos and birds-eye-views of both cities. VG/VG .