Downtown America: a history of the place and the people who made it
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Main Author: Isenberg, Alison (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press c2004
Series:Historical studies of urban America
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description: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."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 441 p.)
ISBN:9780226385099
0226385094
0226385078
9780226385075

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