A Nation of Neighborhoods
Subtitle: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 22, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780226073989
Description: 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 neighbourhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In 'A Nation of Neighborhoods', Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighbourhood as both an endless problem and a possibility. Looker investigates the cultural, social, and political complexities of the idea of 'neighbourhood' in postwar America and how Americans grappled with vast changes in their urban spaces from World War II to the Reagan era.
Notes: Source title: A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America (Historical Studies of Urban America)