Short, John R. <br/><br/>
Alabaster cities :  urban U.S. since 1950 / 
John Rennie Short. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Syracuse, N.Y. :  Syracuse University Press,  2006. 
 - xvi, 293 p. :  ill., maps ;  25 cm. 
 - Space, place, and society .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0815631057 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780815631057 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006022053 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>City planning--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT167  / .S495 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.1/21609730904