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Downtown America : a history of the place and the people who made it
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- Creator
- Alison Isenberg
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226385094, 1282504266, 9786612504266, 0226385078, 9780226385082, 9780226385075, 0226385086, 9780226385099
- OCLC
- ocn662453201, ocn609855204, ocm53793228, on1135589645
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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"
Subjects
- 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.