Makers of the City

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Makers of the City
AuthorLewis F. Fried
Subject City planning
Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date
1990
Pages244

Makers of the City is a 1990 book of essays by Lewis F. Fried about four writers who wrote about the American city: Jacob Riis, Lewis Mumford, James T. Farrell, and Paul Goodman.

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