Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn
| Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn |
| Autore | Conn Steven |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.3/4160973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban renewal - United States - History
Urbanization - United States - History Decentralization in government - United States - History Urbanization Decentralization in government - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-997368-7
0-19-997367-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Americans Against the City; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The American Urban Paradox; 1 Anti-Urbanism: An American Tradition; 2 America's Urban Moment Arrives; 3 The Center Should Not Hold: Decentralizing the City in the 1920's and '30s; 4 New Deal, New Towns: The Anti-Urban New Deal; 5 Looking for Alternatives to the City: The Past and the Folk; 6 The Center Did Not Hold: The City in the Age of Urban Renewal; 7 The Triumph of the Decentralized City; 8 Small Town, New Town, Commune; 9 New Communities, New Urbanisms; Afterword: Urbanism as a Way of Life
Notes Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458726203321 |
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| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn
| Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn |
| Autore | Conn Steven |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.3/4160973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban renewal - United States - History
Urbanization - United States - History Decentralization in government - United States - History Urbanization Decentralization in government - United States |
| ISBN |
0-19-997368-7
0-19-997367-9 |
| Classificazione | HIS036060HIS054000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Americans Against the City; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The American Urban Paradox; 1 Anti-Urbanism: An American Tradition; 2 America's Urban Moment Arrives; 3 The Center Should Not Hold: Decentralizing the City in the 1920's and '30s; 4 New Deal, New Towns: The Anti-Urban New Deal; 5 Looking for Alternatives to the City: The Past and the Folk; 6 The Center Did Not Hold: The City in the Age of Urban Renewal; 7 The Triumph of the Decentralized City; 8 Small Town, New Town, Commune; 9 New Communities, New Urbanisms; Afterword: Urbanism as a Way of Life
Notes Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791188003321 |
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| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn
| Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn |
| Autore | Conn Steven |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.3/4160973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban renewal - United States - History
Urbanization - United States - History Decentralization in government - United States - History Urbanization Decentralization in government - United States |
| ISBN |
0-19-997368-7
0-19-997367-9 |
| Classificazione | HIS036060HIS054000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Americans Against the City; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The American Urban Paradox; 1 Anti-Urbanism: An American Tradition; 2 America's Urban Moment Arrives; 3 The Center Should Not Hold: Decentralizing the City in the 1920's and '30s; 4 New Deal, New Towns: The Anti-Urban New Deal; 5 Looking for Alternatives to the City: The Past and the Folk; 6 The Center Did Not Hold: The City in the Age of Urban Renewal; 7 The Triumph of the Decentralized City; 8 Small Town, New Town, Commune; 9 New Communities, New Urbanisms; Afterword: Urbanism as a Way of Life
Notes Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809533903321 |
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| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metropolitan Philadelphia [[electronic resource] ] : living with the presence of the past / / Steven Conn
| Metropolitan Philadelphia [[electronic resource] ] : living with the presence of the past / / Steven Conn |
| Autore | Conn Steven |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina | 974.8/11 |
| Collana | Metropolitan portraits |
| Soggetto topico |
Human geography - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region
Middle class - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0408-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: The Naked City -- Chapter One. Echoes of William Penn -- Chapter Two. The Ghosts That Haunt Us -- Chapter Three. The Delaware Valley Makes the Middle Class -- Chapter Four. Two Rivers Run Through It -- Chapter Five. In the Mind's Eye: Imagining the Philadelphia Region -- Epilogue: The Naked City and the Story of Decline -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463223803321 |
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006 | ||
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Metropolitan Philadelphia [[electronic resource] ] : living with the presence of the past / / Steven Conn
| Metropolitan Philadelphia [[electronic resource] ] : living with the presence of the past / / Steven Conn |
| Autore | Conn Steven |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina | 974.8/11 |
| Collana | Metropolitan portraits |
| Soggetto topico |
Human geography - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region
Middle class - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region |
| Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Books of Regional Interest General Geography Social Science Urban Studies |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0408-5 |
| Classificazione | ZH 9400 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue: The Naked City -- Chapter One. Echoes of William Penn -- Chapter Two. The Ghosts That Haunt Us -- Chapter Three. The Delaware Valley Makes the Middle Class -- Chapter Four. Two Rivers Run Through It -- Chapter Five. In the Mind's Eye: Imagining the Philadelphia Region -- Epilogue: The Naked City and the Story of Decline -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787524403321 |
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nothing succeeds like failure : the sad history of American business schools / / Steven Conn
| Nothing succeeds like failure : the sad history of American business schools / / Steven Conn |
| Autore | Conn Steven |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Disciplina | 650.071/173 |
| Collana | Histories of American Education |
| Soggetto topico |
Business education - United States - History
Business schools - United States - History Master of business administration degree - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato | business education, management education, higher education |
| ISBN |
1-5017-6177-3
1-5017-4208-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Beast That Ate Campus -- 1. The World before (and Shortly after) Wharton: Getting a Business Education in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Teach the Children . . . What? Business Schools and Their Curricular Confusions -- 3. Dismal Science versus Applied Economics: The Unhappy Relationship between Business Schools and Economics Departments -- 4. It's a White Man's World: Women and African Americans in Business Schools -- 5. Good in a Crisis? How Business Schools Responded to Economic Downturns-or Didn't -- 6. Same as It Ever Was: How Business Schools Helped Create the New Gilded Age -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793731403321 |
Conn Steven
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| Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nothing succeeds like failure : the sad history of American business schools / / Steven Conn
| Nothing succeeds like failure : the sad history of American business schools / / Steven Conn |
| Autore | Conn Steven |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Disciplina | 650.071/173 |
| Collana | Histories of American Education |
| Soggetto topico |
Business education - United States - History
Business schools - United States - History Master of business administration degree - United States - History |
| ISBN |
9781501761775
1501761773 9781501742088 1501742086 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Beast That Ate Campus -- 1. The World before (and Shortly after) Wharton: Getting a Business Education in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Teach the Children . . . What? Business Schools and Their Curricular Confusions -- 3. Dismal Science versus Applied Economics: The Unhappy Relationship between Business Schools and Economics Departments -- 4. It's a White Man's World: Women and African Americans in Business Schools -- 5. Good in a Crisis? How Business Schools Responded to Economic Downturns-or Didn't -- 6. Same as It Ever Was: How Business Schools Helped Create the New Gilded Age -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910963549203321 |
Conn Steven
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| Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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