FIGURE 6.2

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Description: A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania

TitleA Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania

Creator nameHolme, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleMapmaker

Creation date1683

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

MaterialsUnknown

LocationThe Library Company of Philadelphia

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPhiladelphia (Pa.)--MapsGrid plans (City planning)Philadelphia (Pa.)--History

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Chapter 6. The Grid and the Republican Spatial Imagination

Dell Upton

Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic

~In 1789, after a conservative counterrevolution reversed many of the democratic reforms of the revolutionary years, the Pennsylvania legislature restored Philadelphia’s charter, which had been revoked under the 1776 state constitution. The...

Author

Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.113-144

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00271.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21811&redirecttoanchor=70504

Chapter subject tags:Philadelphia (Pa.)--HistoryGrid plans (City planning)UrbanizationNatural historyCities and towns--United States--History--19th century

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