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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-17 - Publisher: Routledge
This unique and inexpensive book provides a demographic and economic history of urban America over the last 65 years. The growth and decline of most northern ci
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
In the post-war era, American urban fiction was dominated by the imagery of containment. This book offers a critique of this familiar story, evident in the noir
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge
[FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on
Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in