Space in the Early American City.

This article discusses various issues related to urban life in the history of cities of the United States. Despite notable contributions, the interpretation of urban life in the early republic of the United States, remains curiously detached from the material substance of the lives of those who lived in the early U.S. city. The article makes an elaborate description of the house of the first U.S. President George Washington in Philadelphia. But, the article author's intent here is not to interpret the dynamics of the domestic spaces within and around Washington's Philadelphia townhouse but to suggest strategies through which one might think about those spaces and their place in larger social, political, and cultural contexts.