(Izdošanas datums: 05-Mar-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253068958)
As its name denotes, Indianapolis is without question Indianas city. Known as the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis and the surrounding communities have and continue to play an important role in politics, logistics, and commerce for both the st...Lasīt vairāk
As its name denotes, Indianapolis is without question Indianas city. Known as the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis and the surrounding communities have and continue to play an important role in politics, logistics, and commerce for both the stat...Lasīt vairāk
Thus the fringe may have appeared post-suburban, but traditional suburban attitudes continued to influence the course of governmental development. The years shortly after the end of World War II saw the beginnings of a new kind of commu...Lasīt vairāk
The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: For persons of principle and gentleme...Lasīt vairāk
Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the soci...Lasīt vairāk
The American Suburb: The Basics is a compact, readable introduction to the origins and contemporary realities of the American suburb. Teaford provides an account of contemporary American suburbia, examining its rise, its diversity, its co...Lasīt vairāk
The American Suburb: The Basics is a compact, readable introduction to the origins and contemporary realities of the American suburb. Teaford provides an account of contemporary American suburbia, examining its rise, its diversity, its co...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-May-2006, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231133722)
In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast and the Midwest were bustling, racially and economically integrated areas frequented by...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-May-2006, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231133739)
In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast and the Midwest were bustling, racially and economically integrated areas frequented by sub...Lasīt vairāk
In the opening years of the 20th century, the state governments of the U.S. were being proclaimed moribund, insignificant institutions. This book examines the evolution of state governments from this situation to the relatively prominent place they a...Lasīt vairāk
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In The Rise of the States, noted urban historian Jon C. Teaford explores the development of state government in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the so-called renaissance of states at the end of the twentieth. Arguing th...Lasīt vairāk
Charts the emergence of communities blending characteristics of suburbia and central cities since post-WWII. Describes the adaptation of traditional units of government to the ideals and demands of these edge cities, following six counties in New Yor...Lasīt vairāk
Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis. -- Library JournalTeaford writes a definitive history of the transformation of Americas heartland into the Rust Belt, chronicling the developme...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-1993, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253357861)
During the 1880s and 90s, the rise of manufacturing, the first soaring skyscrapers, new symphony orchestras and art museums, and winning baseball teams all heralded the midwestern citys coming of age. In Cities of the Heartland, Jon C. Teaford...Lasīt vairāk
This second edition of The Twentieth-Century American City brings the story of urban America up to date through the early 1990s, with an analysis of recent attempts to revive ageing central cities and a look at a new form of development known as t...Lasīt vairāk
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The second edition of this highly acclaimed book brings the story of urban America upto date through the early 1990s, with an analysis of recent attempts to revive aging central cities and a look at a new form of development known as technoburbs o...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared the government of cities to be the one conspicuous failure of the United States. During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryces words with...Lasīt vairāk
