Downtown America [electronic resource] : a history of the place and the people who made it / Alison Isenberg.
Material type: TextLanguage: 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.)
- Cities and towns -- United States -- History
- Central business districts -- United States -- History
- City and town life -- United States -- History
- Community life -- United States -- History
- Inner cities -- United States -- History
- Urban renewal -- United States -- History
- City planning -- United States -- History
- Villes -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Quartiers d'affaires -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Vie urbaine -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Communauté -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Centres villes -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Rénovation urbaine -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Urbanisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban
- Steden
- Histoire
- Ville
- Vie urbaine
- Quartier d'affaires
- Communauté
- Renouveau urbain
- Planification urbaine
- Urbanisme
- Centre-ville
- Stadtplanung
- Stadtkern
- Geschäftsviertel
- États-Unis
- USA
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- HT123 .I74 2004eb
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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."
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