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Author Fogelson, Robert M.

Title Downtown : its rise and fall, 1880-1950 / Robert M. Fogelson.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 492 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-474) and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Cities and towns -- United States -- History.
Cities and towns.
United States.
History.
Central business districts -- United States -- History.
Central business districts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fogelson, Robert M. Downtown. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2001001628
ISBN 9780300133400 (electronic book)
0300133405 (electronic book)
9780300098273
0300098278
0300090625
9780300090628
1281731579
9781281731579