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Alabaster cities : urban U.S. since 1950 /
With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Space, place, and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.