For a generation Sam Warner has written about American urban history by sketching the development of particular cities. In the midst of publishing these volumes, in 1972 Warner wrote his most general urban history, which covered the whole country but concentrated on New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles he called it The Urban Wilderness. To Dwell Is to Garden (1987) traced Boston's community gardens in an effort to show how citydwellers interact with their environment.
The year 1977 brought The Way We Really Live, a set of lectures on Boston's history that combined slides, statistics, and sage reflections-a sort of backdrop for Province of Reason (1984), which presented biographies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bostonians. In 1968 The Private City arrived, a richly illustrated and more quantitative study of Philadelphia from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In 1962, Streetcar Suburbs told us about Boston's rail-led expansion beyond the two-mile-radius pedestrian city of the 1850s, illustrating the story with one chart, eleven maps, and sixty-six photographs. has been enlightening Americans about their urban heritage for thirty-five years.
To my student and faculty colleagues in the University of Michigan's Program in Education for Social ChangeįOREWORD CHARLES TILLY Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City. Preferred Citation: Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. To my student and faculty colleagues in the University of Michigan's Program in Education for Social Change
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