Harvard Square : a love story / Catherine J. Turco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turco, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central business districts--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps.

Central business districts.

Harvard Square (Cambridge, Mass.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Diving into Harvard Square's past and present, Catherine J. Turco, an economic sociologist and longtime Harvard Square denizen, tells the crazy, complicated love story of one quirky little marketplace and in the process, reveals the hidden love story Americans everywhere have long had with their own Main Streets and downtowns.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Author's Note

Introduction

Prologue: Sacred Sundays

1. A Love Story Told from the Street Level

Part 1: A Lot of the Same, A Lot of Change

2. Not What It Used to Be

3. The Times They Are (Always) A-Changin'

4. A Tricky Relationship

Part 2: Crazy Love

5. Crazy Love

6. Everybody Get Together

7. Forever Young

8. Outside Agitators

9. Whose Square? The Battle for Control

10. Pulling Away

11. Different Markets, Different Perspectives

Conclusion

12. Our Markets, Ourselves

13. Reclaiming the Street Level: COVID-19 and Beyond

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Turco, Catherine J. Harvard Square

ISBN:

0-231-55786-8

OCLC:

1355218268