The rise of metropolitan America
Urban renewal: "we must start all over again from the ground up"
Stimulating suburbs, starving cities: "I should prefer to see the ash heaps"
Robert Moses versus Jane Jacobs: "hack your way with a meat ax"
Downtown: "the heart that pumps the blood of commerce"
Creating a suburban society: "a landscape of scary places"
New suburban realities: "trouble in paradise"
Metropolitan fragmentation: "obsolescent structure of urban government"
Urban economies: "all that is solid melts into air"
Race and ethnicity: "e pluribus unum"
Housing and the city: "shaky palaces"
Politics and the city: "informal arrangements
formal workings"
Reimagining the city: "place wars"
Civic engagement in the city: "civic spirit"
Emerging trends.
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Alabaster cities : urban U.S. since 1950 by John R. Short. ISBN 9780815631057. Published by Syracuse University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
