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A Nation of Neighborhoods : Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America / Benjamin Looker.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Looker, Benjamin, Author.
- Series:
- Historical studies of urban America.
- Historical Studies of Urban America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neighborhoods--United States.
- Neighborhoods.
- Cities and towns--United States.
- Cities and towns.
- United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood as both an endless problem and a possibility. Looker investigates the cultural, social, and political complexities of the idea of "neighborhood" in postwar America and how Americans grappled with vast changes in their urban spaces from World War II to the Reagan era. In the face of urban decline, competing visions of the city neighborhood's significance and purpose became proxies for broader debates over the meaning and limits of American democracy. By studying the way these contests unfolded across a startling variety of genres-Broadway shows, radio plays, urban ethnographies, real estate documents, and even children's programming-Looker shows that the neighborhood ideal has functioned as a central symbolic site for advancing and debating theories about American national identity and democratic practice.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. Neighborhood Visions from Popular Front to Populist Memory
- PART II. The Urban Crisis and the Meanings of City Community
- PART III. Defining Urban Pluralism in the Age of the Neighborhoods Movement
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780226290454
- 022629045X
- OCLC:
- 922581741
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