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Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Framing the Discourse -- Foundational Urban Debates -- Prelude to Postwar Decline -- Cities Wholesome and Good -- Not Those of Decadence -- Escalating Downward -- Unhappy Process of Changing -- On the Verge of Catastrophe -- From One Crisis to the Next -- Every Problem a Racial Dimension -- Crisis of Our Cities -- A Double Reversal of Fortune -- Rising from the Ashes -- Not Excessively Inconvenienced. |
| Summary |
<![CDATA[[FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on how commentators crafted a discourse of urban decline and prosperity peculiar to the post-World War II era. The efforts of these commentators spoke to the foundational ambivalence Americans have toward their cities and, in turn, shaped the choices Americans made as they created and negotiated the country's changing urban landscape. [FOR GEOG/URBAN CATALOGS]Freely crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book uses the words of t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- United States.
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Cities and towns. |
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United States. |
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Urban policy -- United States.
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Urban policy. |
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Metropolitan areas -- United States.
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Metropolitan areas. |
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Inner cities -- United States.
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Inner cities. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beauregard, Robert A. Voices of decline. Second edition 0415932378 (DLC) 2002069661 (OCoLC)49699334 |
| ISBN |
9781135324087 (electronic book) |
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1135324085 (electronic book) |
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0415932378 |
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9780415932370 |
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0415932386 |
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9780415932387 |
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