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Building main street: Village improv...

Makker, Kirin J.

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Building main street: Village improvement and the American small town ideal.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Building main street: Village improvement and the American small town ideal./
作者:	Makker, Kirin J.
面頁冊數:	214 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-12, Section: A, page: 4603.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-12A.
標題:	History, United States. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3427554
ISBN:	9781124320137

Building main street: Village improvement and the American small town ideal.
Makker, Kirin J.

Building main street: Village improvement and the American small town ideal. - 214 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-12, Section: A, page: 4603.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010.

Before the American small town was enshrined as an ideal, it was a space of dynamic and pioneering progressive reform, a narrative that has been largely untold in histories of professional planning and landscape history. Archival research shows that village improvement was not simply a prequel to the City Beautiful in the years following the 1893 Chicago Expo, but a rich and complex history that places the residential village at the center of debates about the middle landscape as a civic realm comprised of complimentary and oppositional pastoral and urban worldviews. The second half of the nineteenth century saw an extensive movement in village improvement that affected the physical, economic, and social infrastructure of rural settlements of all sizes in every region of the country.

ISBN: 9781124320137Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

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