Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (Historical Studies of Urban America)
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Alison Isenberg (Author)
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Downtown America transcends the archetypal story of downtown's rise and fall and offers a dynamic new story of urban development in the United States. Moving beyond conventional narratives, Alison Isenberg shows-that downtown's trajectory was not dictated by inevitable free market forces or natural life-and-death cycles. Instead it was the product of human actors - the contested creation of retailers, developers, government, leaders, architects, and planners, as well as political activists, consumers, civic clubs, real estate appraisers, and even postcard artists. Throughout the twentieth century, conflicts over downtown's mundane conditions - what it should look like and who should walk its streets - pointed to fundamental disagreements over American values.
About the Author
Alison Isenberg is associate professor of history at Rutgers University.
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- Contributor: Alison Isenberg
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226385082
- Number of Pages: 464
- Packaged Dimensions: 16x23x3mm
- Packaged Weight: 737
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 2005-07-05
- Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Alison Isenberg is associate professor of history at Rutgers University.
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