Downtown America :: a history of the place and the people who made it /

Downtown America was once the vibrant urban center romanticized in the Petula Clark songa place where the lights were brighter, where people went to spend their money and forget their worries. But in the second half of the twentieth century, "downtown" became a shadow of its former self, s...

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1. Verfasser: Isenberg, Alison
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Schriftenreihe:Historical studies of urban America.
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Zusammenfassung:Downtown America was once the vibrant urban center romanticized in the Petula Clark songa place where the lights were brighter, where people went to spend their money and forget their worries. But in the second half of the twentieth century, "downtown" became a shadow of its former self, succumbing to economic competition and commercial decline. And the death of Main Streets across the country came to be seen as sadly inexorable, like the passing of an aged loved one. Downtown America cuts beneath the archetypal story of downtown's rise and fall and offers a dynamic new story of urba.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 441 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-419) and index.
ISBN:9780226385099
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