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Downtown : Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (506 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300133400
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: DowntownDDC classification:
  • 307.3/3316/0973
LOC classification:
  • HT123.F64 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Business District: Downtown in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2. Derailing the Subways: The Politics of Rapid Transit -- 3. The Sacred Skyline: The Battle over Height Limits -- 4. The Central Business District: Downtown in the 1920s -- 5. The Specter of Decentralization: Downtown During the Great Depression and World War II -- 6. Wishful Thinkings -- Downtown and the Automotive Revolution -- 7. Inventing Blight: Downtown and the Origins of Urban Redevelopment -- 8. Just Another Business District? Downtown in the Mid Twentieth Century -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Business District: Downtown in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2. Derailing the Subways: The Politics of Rapid Transit -- 3. The Sacred Skyline: The Battle over Height Limits -- 4. The Central Business District: Downtown in the 1920s -- 5. The Specter of Decentralization: Downtown During the Great Depression and World War II -- 6. Wishful Thinkings -- Downtown and the Automotive Revolution -- 7. Inventing Blight: Downtown and the Origins of Urban Redevelopment -- 8. Just Another Business District? Downtown in the Mid Twentieth Century -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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