Jon Teaford: 2 books
The Metropolitan Revolution
The Rise of Post-Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast and the Midwest were bustling, racially and economically integrated areas frequented by suburban and urban dwellers alike. Yet since 1945,...
The Twentieth-Century American City
Problem, Promise, and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the nation. Race,...