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Written by one of this country's foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown-and the way Americans thought about downtown-changed over time. By showing how businessmen and property owners worked to promote the well-being of downtown, even at the expense of other parts of the city, it also gives a riveting account of spatial politics in urban America. Drawing on a wide array of contemporary sources, Robert M. Fogelson brings downtown to life, first as the business district, then as the central business district, and finally as just another business district. His book vividly recreates the long-forgotten battles over subways and skyscrapers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And it provides a fresh, often startling perspective on elevated highways, parking bans, urban redevelopment, and other controversial issues. This groundbreaking book will be a revelation to scholars, city planners, policymakers, and general readers interested in American cities and American history.… (meer)
The author claimed in the foreword of this title that someone had to take on the project of chronicling how large urban downtowns came to be, but I'm not sure I agree. He also began with the personal history of visiting his father's midtown Manhattan office and wanting to explore the topic further from there. Admirable in theory, but it became something of a bore to get through the long justifications of why a central business district is not a downtown is not a financial district, and so on. ( )
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A man walking...can make the circuit [of downtown Boston] in an hour with ease. The distance is hardly three miles. Its extreme length is just over a mile, and its least width is but seven hundred feet. This little spot may well be called the heart of the city. It is so literally, as well as metaphorically. Hither, every morning, the great arterial streams of humanity are drawn, and thence every evening they are returned to the extremities of the city and its suburbs, as the blood pulses to and from the human heart, or the tides ebb and flow in the bay. -Massachusetts Rapid Transit Commission of 1892
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Eerste woorden
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During the late 1940s and early 1950s my father practiced law in a forty-story skyscraper at the corner of fifth Avenue and Forty-third Street, a few blocks from Grand Central Station, one of New York City's two great railroad terminals. (Introduction)
Late in 1919 A.G. Gardiner, an English journalist and former editor of the London Daily News, made his first trip to the United States. (I, The Business District: Downtown in the Late Nineteenth Century)
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If the metropolis of the future was unfolding in Los Angeles, as many Americans believed, it did not bode well for Hutzler and other businessmen and property owners that downtown L.A. was or would soon be "just another" business district. (8 Just Another Business District? Downtown in the Mid Twentieth Century)
If there is reason today for optimism about the future of downtown, it can be found not in the many cties that have built downtown malls and convention centers, but in the few cities were many Americans have rejected the traditional concept of the good community and instead opted to live in apartments in or near the central business district. (Epilogue)
Written by one of this country's foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown-and the way Americans thought about downtown-changed over time. By showing how businessmen and property owners worked to promote the well-being of downtown, even at the expense of other parts of the city, it also gives a riveting account of spatial politics in urban America. Drawing on a wide array of contemporary sources, Robert M. Fogelson brings downtown to life, first as the business district, then as the central business district, and finally as just another business district. His book vividly recreates the long-forgotten battles over subways and skyscrapers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And it provides a fresh, often startling perspective on elevated highways, parking bans, urban redevelopment, and other controversial issues. This groundbreaking book will be a revelation to scholars, city planners, policymakers, and general readers interested in American cities and American history.
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