National Science Library of Georgia

Local cover image
Local cover image
Image from Google Jackets

Downtown America [electronic resource] : a history of the place and the people who made it / Alison Isenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Historical studies of urban AmericaPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 441 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226385099 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226385094 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Downtown America.DDC classification:
  • 307.76/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • HT123 .I74 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Beyond decline: assessing the values of urban commercial life in the twentieth century -- City beautiful or beautiful mess? The gendered origins of a civic ideal -- Fixing an image of commercial dignity: postcards and the business of planning Main Street -- "Mrs. Consumer," "Mrs. Brown America," and "Mr. Chain Store Man": economic woman and the laws of retail -- Main Street's interior frontier: innovation amid Depression and War -- "The demolition of our outworn past": suburban shoppers and the logic of urban renewal -- The hollow prize? Black buyers, racial violence, and the riot renaissance -- Animated by nostalgia: preservation and vacancy since the 1960s -- Conclusion: "The lights are much brighter there."
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Date due Barcode
ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 94(73) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-419) and index.

Introduction: Beyond decline: assessing the values of urban commercial life in the twentieth century -- City beautiful or beautiful mess? The gendered origins of a civic ideal -- Fixing an image of commercial dignity: postcards and the business of planning Main Street -- "Mrs. Consumer," "Mrs. Brown America," and "Mr. Chain Store Man": economic woman and the laws of retail -- Main Street's interior frontier: innovation amid Depression and War -- "The demolition of our outworn past": suburban shoppers and the logic of urban renewal -- The hollow prize? Black buyers, racial violence, and the riot renaissance -- Animated by nostalgia: preservation and vacancy since the 1960s -- Conclusion: "The lights are much brighter there."

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer

Local cover image
Copyright © 2023 Sciencelib.ge All rights reserved.