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Author:

Orvell, Miles.

Title:

The death and life of Main Street : small towns in American memory, space and community / Miles Orvell.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiii, 286 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Small cities--Social aspects--United States.
City and town life--United States.
Community life--United States.
Community development--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Main street mythologies -- The death and life of small American towns -- Living on Main Street: Sinclair Lewis and the great cultural divide -- Main Street as memory -- Main Street: belonging and not belonging -- Utopian dreams: from Forest Hills to Greenbelt -- Rethinking suburbia: Levittown or the new urbanism? -- Main Street in the city -- Conclusion: consuming Main Street.

ISBN:

0807835684 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807835685 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)777327493

LCCN:

2012005086

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)