Kingsport, Tennessee : A Planned American City /

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Kingsport, Tennessee, was the first thoroughly diversified, professionally planned, and privately financed city in twentieth-century America. The advent of this so-called model city, a glittering new industrial jewel in the green mountains, offered area residents an alternative to rural life and sta...

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Autor principal: Wolfe, Margaret Ripley, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
City planning.
City and town life.
TRAVEL > United States > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Vie urbaine > Tennessee > Histoire.
City planning > Tennessee > History.
City and town life > Tennessee > History.
Tennessee > Kingsport.
Tennessee.
Kingsport (Tenn.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title ; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Foundations of an American Dream; 3. Artifacts of the Planned City; 4. Building an Industrial Community; 5. The Human Factor; 6. The Model City in Depression and War; 7. Kingsport in Transition; 8. Dismantling the Model City; 9. Epilogue; Notes; Index.

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