LEADER 03311nam 2200649 450 001 9910787873603321 005 20230926055022.0 010 $a0-8156-5185-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000545092 035 $a(MH)010243299-6 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133322 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12428557 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133322 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11157618 035 $a(PQKB)11766821 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4649077 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4649077 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11249961 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL945728 035 $a(OCoLC)957437173 035 $a(OCoLC)1398571350 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_114268 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000545092 100 $a20160905h20062006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlabaster cities $eurban U.S. since 1950 /$fJohn Rennie Short 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSyracuse, New York :$cSyracuse University Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 293 p. )$cill., maps ; 225 1 $aSpace, Place and Society 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8156-3105-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aWith keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities. 410 0$aSpace, place, and society. 606 $aCity planning$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUSA$2swd 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory 676 $a307.1/21609730904 700 $aShort$b John R.$0129745 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787873603321 996 $aAlabaster cities$93864280 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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