GUSN-146491
x, 492 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Cities and towns History.
Central business districts History.
Stadskernen.
Sociale verandering.
Fogelson, Robert M.
The business district: downtown in the late nineteenth century -- Derailing the subways: the politics of rapid transit -- The sacred skyline: the battle over height limits -- The central business district: downtown in the 1920s -- The specter of decentralization: downtown during the Great Depression and World War II -- Wishful thinking: downtown and the automotive revolution -- Inventing blight: downtown and the origins for urban redevelopment -- Just another business district? Downtown in the mid twentieth century.
New Haven : Yale University Press
x, 492 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-474) and index.
0300090625 (alk. paper)
9780300090628 (alk. paper)
0300098278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780300098273 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Stacks HT123.F64 2001
United States
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