Main street revisited : time, space, and image building in small-town America / / Richard V. Francaviglia ; foreword by Wayne Franklin
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| Autore: |
Francaviglia Richard V.
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| Titolo: |
Main street revisited : time, space, and image building in small-town America / / Richard V. Francaviglia ; foreword by Wayne Franklin
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , [1996] |
| ©1996 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.76/2/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | City planning - United States |
| City and town life - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-216) and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and idealized images. In Main Street Revisited, the first book to place the design of small downtowns in spatial and chronological context, Richard Francaviglia finds the sources of romanticized images of this archetype, including Walt Disney's Main Street USA, in towns as diverse as Marceline, Missouri, and Fort Collins, Colorado. Francaviglia interprets Main Street both as a real place and as an expression of collective assumptions, designs, and myths; his Main Streets are treasure troves of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Main street revisited |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-071-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778731003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
American land and life series.