Philadelphia and Baltimore, close economic rivals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had strikingly different processes of planning, patterns of growth, and resulting urban characters. This article examines these aspects of the two cities and elucidates them with travelers’ comments and urban views of the period and the aesthetic theory underlying these viewpoints.

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费城与巴尔的摩：美国两个战前城市的城市规划和审美特征

费城和巴尔的摩在18世纪末和19世纪初是经济上的紧密竞争对手，其规划过程，增长方式以及由此产生的城市特征截然不同。本文考察了这两个城市的这些方面，并通过旅行者的评论和该时期的城市观点以及这些观点所依据的美学理论来阐明它们。