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Article: Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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Urban history has moved well beyond the pioneering works of urban biography of the 1930s. Although a considerable improvement over the antiquarian local histories that preceded them, these works still painted unidimensional pictures of urban life. The history of the suburb has been no mare stepchild to this evolution. Since the pioneering work of Sam Bass Warner, Jr., historians have sought the antecedents of the postwar automobile suburb in the era of streetcars, ferryboats, and commuter railroads.
David R. Contosta's history of Philadelphia's fashionable internal suburb examines Chestnut Hill's development from its inception to the present day. Initially a "gateway ...
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