The metropolitan revolution : the rise of post-urban America /

"Teaford surveys metropolitan areas from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and the way in which postwar social, racial, and cultural shifts contributed to the decline of the central city as a hub of work, shopping, transportation, and entertainment."--Jacket.

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Main Author: Teaford, Jon C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
Series:Columbia history of urban life.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the metropolitan revolution
  • 1945
  • Reinforcing the status quo
  • Coming apart
  • The debacle
  • The new metropolitan world
  • Beyond the Black-White city
  • After the revolution.