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Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
 By Robert M. Fogelson

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 By Robert M. Fogelson


Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
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Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
 By Robert M. Fogelson

  • Sales Rank: #546346 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2001-09-10
  • Released on: 2001-09-10
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From Library Journal
One of the nation's leading urban historians, Fogelson (urban studies, MIT; The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930) examines the history of the American city center, from a position of business and commercial dominance in 1880 to one of obsolescence in the mid-20th century. Drawing on his comprehensive research, Fogelson presents a detailed portrayal of downtown's fragmented reaction to residential dispersal, the decentralization of business, traffic congestion, the Depression, and want of vision by downtown's leaders and advocates. He tracks controversial and conflicting public policy debates over rapid transit systems, limited building heights, zoning, traffic regulations, and public parking, which highlight uncoordinated and shortsighted attempts to reshape a once-dominant central city. Fogelson concludes with the perceptive and perhaps rueful observation that downtown's decline in the first half of the 20th century was mostly the result of an American vision of "bourgeois utopia," a nation of suburbs, which brought the beginning of urban sprawl. A superbly thorough analysis of the causes of inner-city blight, congestion, and economic decline in mid-20th century urban America, this is essential reading for American historians and an excellent addition to academic and urban libraries. John E. Hodgkins, Yarmouth, ME
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Most U.S. cities have a downtown, historically the business, commercial, and entertainment hub of a city, to which many flock each day to work, shop, and play. In the words of the pop song, "the lights are much brighter there," where "you can forget all your troubles, forget all your care." Recently, downtown has been forgotten, but is the decline of downtown areas really a recent phenomenon? Fogelson--long interested in how downtowns have been shaped and have attracted people, businesses, traffic, and crime--argues that they have been doomed from the beginning of their existence. The American phenomenon of suburban sprawl has been occurring since American cities were founded. The decline of downtown areas was actually completed in the 1950s, though they have begun to reemerge once again as centers of activity. Projecting his enthusiasm for the subject in this very well researched history of America's downtown experience, Fogelson creates extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience. Michael Spinella
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Review
"Superlative ... exceedingly provocative as well as informative ... makes a vital contribution to the study of American life."

"A stimulating new history of a long-neglected subject."

Winner of the 2001 Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American City and Regional Planning History

"Superlative . . . exceedingly provocative as well as informative . . . makes a vital contribution to the study of American life."

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