Kingsport, Tennessee : A Planned American City / Margaret Ripley Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Margaret Ripley, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Tennessee--History.

City planning.

City and town life--Tennessee--History.

City and town life.

Kingsport (Tenn.)--History.

Kingsport (Tenn.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kingsport, Tennessee, was the first thoroughly diversified, professionally planned, and privately financed city in twentieth-century America. The advent of this so-called model city, a glittering new industrial jewel in the green mountains, offered area residents an alternative to rural life and staid small-town existence as the new century dawned. Neither an Appalachian hamlet nor a company town, Kingsport developed as a self-proclaimed ""All-American City.""Produced by the marriage of New South philosophy and Progressivism, born of a passing historical moment when capitalists turned their at

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title ; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Foundations of an American Dream; 3. Artifacts of the Planned City; 4. Building an Industrial Community; 5. The Human Factor; 6. The Model City in Depression and War; 7. Kingsport in Transition; 8. Dismantling the Model City; 9. Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [214]-244.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813189222

0813189225

9780813156347

0813156343

OCLC:

900344561