03311nam 2200649 450 991081117390332120230926055022.00-8156-5185-6(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(OCoLC)1398571350(MdBmJHUP)musev2_114268(EXLCZ)99267000000054509220160905h20062006 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAlabaster cities urban U.S. since 1950 /John Rennie Short1st ed.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.With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities.Space, place, and society.City planningUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUSAswdUnited StatesfastHistory.Electronic books. City planningHistory307.1/21609730904Short John R.129745MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811173903321Alabaster cities4020608UNINAThis 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