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The death and life of Main Street : small towns in American memory, space and community / Miles Orvell.
LIBRA HT123 .O78 2012
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HT123 .O78 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orvell, Miles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Small cities--Social aspects--United States.
- Small cities.
- City and town life--United States.
- City and town life.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Community life--United States.
- Community life.
- Community development--United States.
- Community development.
- Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History.
- Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 286 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Main street mythologies
- The death and life of small American towns
- Living on Main Street: Sinclair Lewis and the great cultural divide
- Main Street as memory
- Main Street: belonging and not belonging
- Utopian dreams: from Forest Hills to Greenbelt
- Rethinking suburbia: Levittown or the new urbanism?
- Main Street in the city
- Conclusion: consuming Main Street.
- Main Street mythologies
- Fighting extinction : the reinvention of Main Street
- Living on Main Street : Sinclair Lewis and the great cultural divide
- Main Street : belonging and not belonging
- Utopian dreams : from Forest Hills to Greenbelt
- Rethinking suburbia : Levittown or the new urbanism?
- Conclusion: Consuming Main Street.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835685
- 0807835684
- OCLC:
- 777327493
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