02738nam 2200577 450 991046393760332120200520144314.00-8156-5185-6(CKB)2670000000545092(MH)010243299-6(SSID)ssj0001133322(PQKBManifestationID)12428557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133322(PQKBWorkID)11157618(PQKB)11766821(MiAaPQ)EBC4649077(Au-PeEL)EBL4649077(CaPaEBR)ebr11249961(CaONFJC)MIL945728(OCoLC)957437173(EXLCZ)99267000000054509220160905h20062006 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAlabaster cities urban U.S. since 1950 /John Rennie ShortFirst edition.Syracuse, New York :Syracuse University Press,2006.©20061 online resource (xvi, 293 p. )ill., maps ;Space, Place and SocietyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8156-3105-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Space, place, and society.City planningUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.City planningHistory307.1/21609730904Short John R.129745MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463937603321Alabaster cities2144223UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress