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The Twentieth-Century American City : Problem, Promise, and Reality /

Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the nation. Race, et...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Teaford, Jon C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Edición:Third edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Problem, promise, and reality
  • The century begins, 1900-1919
  • Promises thwarted: the twenties
  • An interlude in urban development, 1930-1945
  • Suburbia triumphant, 1945-1964
  • An age of "urban crisis," 1964-1979
  • Toward a new metropolis, 1980 and beyond
  • The turn-of-the-century city.