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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. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Main street revisited : time, space, and image building in small-town America / / Richard V. Francaviglia ; foreword by Wayne Franklin Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-071-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816914903321
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Serie: American land and life series.