Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 293 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
1st ed
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0815651856
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0815631057
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9780815651857
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9780815631057
Serie:
Space, place, and society
Inhalt:
With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities
Inhalt:
The rise of metropolitan America -- Urban renewal: "we must start all over again from the ground up" -- Stimulating suburbs, starving cities: "I should prefer to see the ash heaps" -- Robert Moses versus Jane Jacobs: "hack your way with a meat ax" -- Downtown: "the heart that pumps the blood of commerce" -- Creating a suburban society: "a landscape of scary places" -- New suburban realities: "trouble in paradise" -- Metropolitan fragmentation: "obsolescent structure of urban government" -- Urban economies: "all that is solid melts into air" -- Race and ethnicity: "e pluribus unum" -- Housing and the city: "shaky palaces" -- Politics and the city: "informal arrangements-- formal workings" -- Reimagining the city: "place wars" -- Civic engagement in the city: "civic spirit" -- Emerging trends
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0815631057
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780815631057
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Short, John R Alabaster cities Syracuse, N.Y : Syracuse University Press, 2006
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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Mehr zum Autor:
Short, John R. 1951-
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