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

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ISBN: 0226385078 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780226385075 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0226385078 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0226385094 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780226385099 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 441 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.

General Note:	CatMonthString:apr.13 CatBulkString:apr.11.13 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-419) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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."
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.