TY  - BOOK
AU  - Isenberg,Alison
TI  - Downtown America: a history of the place and the people who made it 
SN  - 0226385078 (alk. paper)
AV  - HT123 I78d 2004
U1  - 307.76/0973 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Central business districts
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Community life
KW  - Inner cities
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - City planning
KW  - Villes
KW  - âEtats-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Quartiers d'affaires
KW  - Vie urbaine
KW  - Communautâe
KW  - Centres villes
KW  - Râenovation urbaine
KW  - Urbanisme
KW  - Steden
KW  - gtt
KW  - rasuqam
KW  - Ville
KW  - Quartier d'affaires
KW  - Renouveau urbain
KW  - Planification urbaine
KW  - Centre-ville
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-419) and index; Introduction. Beyond decline: assessing the values of urban commercial life in the twentieth century -- City beautiful or beautiful mess? The gendered origins of a civic ideal -- Fixing an image of commercial dignity: postcards and the business of planning Main Street -- "Mrs. Consumer," "Mrs. Brown America," and "Mr. Chain Store Man": economic woman and the laws of retail -- Main Street's interior frontier: innovation amid Depression and War -- "The Demolition of our outworn past": Suburban shoppers and the logic of urban renewal -- The hollow prize? Black buyers, racial violence, and the riot renaissance -- Animated by nostalgia: preservation and vacancy since the 1960s -- Conclusion. "The lights are much brighter there"
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi053/2003024058.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2003024058.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003024058.html
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