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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819753803321

Autore

Rae Douglas W

Titolo

City : urbanism and its end / / Douglas W. Rae

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-281-73446-2

9786611734466

0-300-13475-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 p.)

Collana

The Yale ISPS series

Disciplina

974.6/8043

Soggetti

City and town life - Connecticut - New Haven - History - 20th century

Industrialization - Social aspects - Connecticut - New Haven - History - 20th century

Urban renewal - Connecticut - New Haven - History - 20th century

New Haven (Conn.) Politics and government 20th century

New Haven (Conn.) Economic conditions 20th century

New Haven (Conn.) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-497) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Creative Destruction and the Age of Urbanism -- Part I: Urbanism -- 2. Industrial Convergence on a New England Town -- 3. Fabric of Enterprise -- 4. Living Local -- 5. Civic Density -- 6. A Sidewalk Republic -- Part II: End of Urbanism -- 7. Business and Civic Erosion, 1917-1950 -- 8. Race, Place, and the Emergence of Spatial Hierarchy -- 9. Inventing Dick Lee -- 10. Extraordinary Politics: Dick Lee, Urban Renewal, and the End of Urbanism -- 11. The End of Urbanism -- 12. A City After Urbanism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.