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Liberty's grid : a founding father, a mathematical dreamland, and the shaping of America

Alexander, Amir, author

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The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of America - the gridded landscape. From the halls of Congress to the open prairies, and from the fight against George III to the Trail of Tears, 'Liberty's Grid' tells the story of the battle between grid makers and their opponents. When Congress endorsed Jefferson's plan, it set off a struggle over American space that has not subsided. Transcendentalists, urban reformers, and conservationists saw the grid not as a place of possibility but as an artificial imposition that crushed the human spirit. Today, the ideas Jefferson associated with the grid still echo through political rhetoric about the country's founding, and competing visions for the nation are visible from Manhattan avenues and Kansan pastures to Yosemite's cliffs and suburbia's cul-de-sacs. An engrossing read, this book offers a powerful look at the ideological conflict written on the landscape.

• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Subject: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. / Grids (Cartography) United States. / Grid plans (City planning) United States. / Mathematical geography. / Cartography United States. / Popular Science and Nature. / cartography (discipline) / cartography
• ISBN: 9780226820729

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