TY  - BOOK
AU  - Short,John R.
TI  - Alabaster cities: urban U.S. since 1950 
SN  - 0815631057 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HT167 .S495 2006
U1  - 307.1/21609730904 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Syracuse, N.Y.
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - City planning
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006022053.html
ER  -