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The death and life of Main Street : small towns in American memory, space and community
- Title
- The death and life of Main Street : small towns in American memory, space and community / Miles Orvell.
- Author
- Orvell, Miles.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 286p., [12] p. of plates : col ill.; 24 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Purchased through The Jeremiah Kaplan Endowment for the Social Sciences.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Main street mythologies -- The death and life of small American towns -- Living on Main Street: Sinclair Lewis and the great cultural divide -- Main Street as memory -- Main Street: belonging and not belonging -- Utopian dreams: from Forest Hills to Greenbelt -- Rethinking suburbia: Levittown or the new urbanism? -- Main Street in the city -- Conclusion: consuming Main Street.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-8331
- ISBN
- 9780807835685 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807835684 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012005086
- OCLC
- 777327493
- Author
- Orvell, Miles.
- Title
- The death and life of Main Street : small towns in American memory, space and community / Miles Orvell.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-8331