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Alabaster cities : urban U.S. since 1950 / John Rennie Short.

By: Series: Space, place, and societyPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0815631057 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780815631057 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1/21609730904 22
LOC classification:
  • HT167 .S495 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks HT167 .S495 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001007565

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.

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.

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