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Article: Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930. .(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2002
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Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930. By Peter C. Baldwin (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. x plus 360pp.).
Students of the urban past have increasingly focused on the uses of urban public space. Social historians interested in the lives and perspectives of racial, ethnic working-class men and women have contributed significantly to these efforts. These studies have demonstrated how the working classes contested with others on and for the urban terrain; often their neighborhoods' active uses of the street and public areas established their control over those spaces.
Urban critics as Jane Jacobs, William ...