Downtown its rise and fall, 1880-1950 / [electronic resource] :
Robert M. Fogelson.
- Yale University Press, c2001.
- 1 online resource (x, 492 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-474) and index.
The business district: downtown in the late nineteenth century -- Derailing the subways: the politics of rapid transit -- The sacred skyline: the battle over height limits -- The central business district: downtown in the 1920s -- The specter of decentralization: downtown during the Great Depression and World War II -- Wishful thinking: downtown and the automotive revolution -- Inventing blight: downtown and the origins for urban redevelopment -- Just another business district? Downtown in the mid twentieth century.
Cities and towns--History.--United States Central business districts--History.--United States SOCIAL SCIENCE--Essays. Stadskernen. Sociale verandering.
საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერებანი-- ქალაქები-- ქალაქის საქმიანი ნაწილი