Local Government in Early America by Janiskee Brian P.;

Author:Janiskee, Brian P.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The New England Village Revisited

Many people—led by New Urbanist scholars—suppose that the New England town was a compact and quaint village. But the image of the typical New England town as a number of “dwellings and farmsteads gathered purposefully close together and apart from farmlands to form a compact settlement” does not bear the scrutiny of empirical analysis.24 Joseph Wood, a scholar of colonial geography, observes that:

The common New England village landscape is burdened by an invented tradition, both popular and scholarly, which has become universalized. In the collective American mind the New England village is a nucleated agricultural settlement encircling a green and standing for community forbearance in a period of societal discipline and economic stability.25

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