| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape. By Eric Sandweiss. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. xii + 282 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $74.50, cloth, $24.95, paper.)

Eric Sandweiss explores the evolution of the early twentieth-century built environment and landscape of St. Louis as the outcome of a series of interactions over time among residents, developers, builders, planners, and city officials acting within the context of previous urban landscapes. The result was a divided urban landscape of myriad private "fenced off corners" of homes and streets situated in sharp opposition to an emerging planned "wider setting" that aspired to give the city spatial unity (pp. 11, 1). In this fascinating look at St. Louis, he follows this story in extraordinary detail and complexity. The result is a rich and subtle understanding of how the American urban landscape was created and how it might be changed. . . .

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