Modernizing Main Street
Subtitle: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226218007
Subjects: History; Architecture; History: American; Planning; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; History - General
Description: An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across America. This book uncovers the cultural history of the hundreds of thousands of modernized storefronts that resulted from this federal provision.