Preferred Citation: Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  [1995] 1995. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4779n9pn/

 

Intraurban Transportation

A nostalgia for cable cars and open-sided electrics pervades the literature of this field but some studies do suggest the links between intracity transport and urban form. Leon Moses and Harold F. Williamson have written an excellent speculative article in which they propose a history of transportation effects from the earliest years of the nineteenth century to the present: "The Location of Economic Activities in Cities," American Economic Review , 57 (May 1967), 211-22. Successive innovations and their impacts are recorded by George Rogers Taylor, "The Beginning of Mass Transportation in Urban America, Parts I and II," Smithsonian Journal of History , 1 (Summer and Autumn 1966), 35-50 and 31-54; my own Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston 1870-1900 , Cambridge, 1962; Robert M. Fogelson, Fragmented Metropolis, Los Angeles 1850-1930 , Cam-

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bridge, 1967; and Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies , New York, 1972.

 

Preferred Citation: Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  [1995] 1995. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4779n9pn/