Downtown America : a history of the place and the people who made it

Downtown America : a history of the place and the people who made it / Alison Isenberg.

Author/creator	Isenberg, Alison
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Description	xviii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Cities and towns--United States --History. Central business districts--United States --History. City and town life--United States --History. Community life--United States --History. Inner cities--United States --History. Urban renewal--United States --History. City planning--United States --History.

Series	Historical studies of urban America Historical studies of urban America. ^A372868
Contents	Introduction. Beyond decline: assessing the values of urban commercial life in the twentieth century -- City beautiful or beautiful mess? The gendered origins of a civic ideal -- Fixing an image of commercial dignity: postcards and the business of planning Main Street -- "Mrs. Consumer," "Mrs. Brown America," and "Mr. Chain Store Man": economic woman and the laws of retail -- Main Street's interior frontier: innovation amid Depression and War -- "The Demolition of our outworn past": Suburban shoppers and the logic of urban renewal -- The hollow prize? Black buyers, racial violence, and the riot renaissance -- Animated by nostalgia: preservation and vacancy since the 1960s -- Conclusion. "The lights are much brighter there".
Local note	Little-342889--305131048619+
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-419) and index.
LCCN	2003024058
ISBN	0226385078 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0226385086 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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