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A nation of neighborhoods : imagining cities, communities, and democracy in postwar America /
Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Historical studies of urban America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I: Neighborhood Visions from Popular Front to Populist Memory
- 1. Microcosms of Democracy: Depicting the City Neighborhood in Wartime America
- 2. Communities under Glass: The Neighborhood Unit Plan and Postwar Privatization
- 3. The Specter of Blight: The Neighborhood under Siege
- 4. Routes of Escape: Cold War Individualism and Community Ties
- Part II: The Urban Crisis and the Meanings of City Community
- 5. A Place Apart: The "New Ghetto" and the "Old Neighborhood"
- 6. Brilliant Corners: Representing the Inner City, from Outside and from Within
- 7. Peaceful Kingdoms: The Great Society Neighborhood in Stories for Children
- Part III: Defining Urban Pluralism in the Age of the Neighborhoods Movement
- 8. Elementary Republics and Little Platoons: The Neighborhood Self-Government Movement
- 9. "A Theology of Neighborhood": Post-Vatican II Catholicism, Ethnic Revival, and City Space
- 10. Neighborhood Feminisms: Refiguring Gender in the Urban Village
- 11. Local Spaces and White House Races: Urban Communities and Presidential Politics
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.