Downtown America

A History of the Place and the People Who Made It

AvAlison Isenberg

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Downtown America transcends the archetypal story of downtown's rise and fall and offers a dynamic new story of urban development in the United States. Moving beyond conventional narratives, Alison Isenberg shows-that downtown's trajectory was not dictated by inevitable free market forces or natural life-and-death cycles. Instead it was the product of human actors - the contested creation of retailers, developers, government, leaders, architects, and planners, as well as political activists, consumers, civic clubs, real estate appraisers, and even postcard artists. Throughout the twentieth century, conflicts over downtown's mundane conditions - what it should look like and who should walk its streets - pointed to fundamental disagreements over American values.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-06-10
Mått:16 x 23 x 3 mm
Vikt:737 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Studies of Urban America
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226385082

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Alison Isenberg is associate professor of history at Rutgers University.

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"America's downtowns, if the daily papers and local chambers of commerce are to be believed, are tottering on the brink of destruction once again....Isenberg holds out a ray of hope in Downtown America. Her endlessly fascinating book argues that Main Street has always been an idealized dreamscape, a kind of Shangri-La of perfect civic bliss that never did quite measure up to its own image." - Karal Ann Marling, Chicago Tribune "Isenberg exploits conference reports, maps, real estate appraisals, marketing studies, and federal guidelines to show the social and cultural effects of deliberate actions in reshaping nonrural America....[Her] ample use of illustrations is exemplary, as is her inclusion of representative cities throughout the North and South. Her optimistic perspective on downtowns as democratic meeting places of diverse elements of the population makes one want to find out even more about the revitalizers of urban spaces." - Library Journal