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Autore: |
Bauman John F. <1938->
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Titolo: |
The ever-changing American city [[electronic resource] ] : 1945-present / / John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Szylvian
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Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
Disciplina: | 307.760973 |
Soggetto topico: | Cities and towns - United States |
Cities and towns - United States - History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
BilesRoger <1950->
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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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The ever-changing American city ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4422-0183-5 |
9786613362179 | |
1-283-36217-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457239403321 |
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