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Alabaster cities : urban U.S. since 1950
- Title
- Alabaster cities : urban U.S. since 1950 / John Rennie Short.
- Author
- Short, John R.
- Publication
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 293 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Space, place, and society
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-2576
- ISBN
- 0815631057 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780815631057 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006022053
- OCLC
- 70284378
- Author
- Short, John R.
- Title
- Alabaster cities : urban U.S. since 1950 / John Rennie Short.
- Imprint
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Space, place, and society
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
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- Added Author
- hg cft/wlt
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-2576