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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781413803321

Autore

Bauman John F. <1938->

Titolo

The ever-changing American city [[electronic resource] ] : 1945-present / / John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Szylvian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012

ISBN

1-4422-0183-5

9786613362179

1-283-36217-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BilesRoger <1950->

SzylvianKristin M

Disciplina

307.760973

Soggetti

Cities and towns - United States

Cities and towns - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The electronic city -- Shaping the postwar city : 1945-1960 -- Federal policy and the American city -- The tarnished face of the American city -- The American city in the age of limits : 1968-1990 -- The city and the image made real : the 1990s and 2000s.

Sommario/riassunto

The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and rebirth. Nor is it a straight forward account of the struggle between the central business district and the suburbs on the urban periphery. In the decades that followed World War II, the cityscape was altered to better accommodate the automobile transforming the city from a place of production