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010 _a 2006022053
020 _a0815631057 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a9780815631057 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 _aShort, John R.
245 1 0 _aAlabaster cities :
_burban U.S. since 1950 /
_cJohn Rennie Short.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aSyracuse, N.Y. :
_bSyracuse University Press,
_c2006.
300 _axvi, 293 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
440 0 _aSpace, place, and society
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aCity planning
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
856 4 1 _zTable of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006022053.html
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