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Fogelson, Robert M.

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.

ISBN: 9780300098273 0300098278 0300090625 (alk. paper) 9780300090628 (alk. paper) 9780300133400 (electronic bk.) 0300133405 (electronic bk.) 1281731579 9781281731579

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cities and towns--History.--United States
Central business districts--History.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Essays.
Stadskernen.
Sociale verandering.

Subjects--Index Terms: საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერებანი-- ქალაქები-- ქალაქის საქმიანი ნაწილი

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT123 / .F64 2001eb

Dewey Class. No.: 307.3/3316/0973

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 30(73)