Downtown America
Subtitle: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780226385082
Subjects: Social history; Urban communities; History; Sociology; History: American; USA; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; United States - General; Central business districts; Cities and towns; City and town life; United States
First sentence: In 1962 Walker Evans poignantly captured the memory of a vanished downtown "heyday": " 'Downtown' was a beautiful mess," he wrote in an essay for Fortune magazine.