Main Street
Subtitle: myth, memory, and the dream of community
By: Miles Orvell
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780807835685
Subjects: Community life; Small cities; City and town life; Community development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Main street mythologies; title: The death and life of small American towns; title: Living on Main Street: Sinclair Lewis and the great cultural divide; title: Main Street as memory; title: Main Street: belonging and not belonging; title: Utopian dreams: from Forest Hills to Greenbelt; title: Rethinking suburbia: Levittown or the new urbanism?; title: Main Street in the city; title: Conclusion: consuming Main Street.