Inventing Times Square
Subtitle: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 22, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780801853371
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Cultural studies; Urban communities; United States - State & Local - General; New York (N.Y.); Culture; History - U.S.; Times Square (New York, N.Y.); History: American; USA; New York (State); Sociology - Urban; History / United States / General; History; 1898-1951; New York; Popular culture
First sentence: CONTRIBUTORS to this section-Structural Changes-have shown that, in one way or another, the inherited regional varieties of American life and livelihood were being changed in the direction of a so-called consumer culture well before the end of the nineteenth century.