| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City. By Diane Shaw. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. liv, 209 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-7925-6.)

Diane Shaw's City Building on the Eastern Frontier explores the vernacular architecture of Syracuse and Rochester, New York, in the heyday of the Erie Canal. Examining the cultural assumptions and social implications of nonprofessional urban design, Shaw argues that a mercantile vision of economic vitality and a bourgeois conception of gentility made the walking city more than a hodgepodge of jumbled functions. Making excellent use of fifty-seven plates that bring her analysis to life, Shaw shows how merchant builders and merchant-dominated local governments designed a sorted city of commercial, industrial, and civic districts.

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