The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality

by Jon C. Teaford

Book Overview

Modern cities embody America's successes and failures--while offering hope for the future.

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, ethnicity, and class splintered the metropolis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421420384
• ISBN13: 9781421420387
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

An insightful book for anyone

This book went through each decade and described how the times effected the development of the American City. There were numerous examples that painted a clear picture of what it was like to live during the time of prohibition, the depression, or the suburbanization of the 60's. Teaford makes the usually boring subject of history enjoyable!