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Nation of Neighborhoods
Benjamin Looker
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Description for Nation of Neighborhoods
Paperback. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Condition
New
Weight
614g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226290317
SKU
V9780226290317
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About Benjamin Looker
Benjamin Looker teaches in the American Studies Department at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Point from Which Creation Begins : The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis.
Reviews for Nation of Neighborhoods
Looker's A Nation of Neighborhoods is an extraordinary scholarly contribution, an original, deeply researched, elegantly written book that helps us look in fresh ways at postwar America. It represents the best of contemporary cultural history
sophisticated in its approaches, carefully bold in both its claims and its reach across the widest range of genres.
Daniel Horowitz author of ... Read more
sophisticated in its approaches, carefully bold in both its claims and its reach across the widest range of genres.
Daniel Horowitz author of ... Read more