A Nation of Neighborhoods
Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America
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PART I Neighborhood Visions from Popular Front to Populist Memory
1 Microcosms of Democracy: Depicting the City Neighborhood in Wartime America
2 Communities under Glass: The Neighborhood Unit Plan and Postwar Privatization
3 The Specter of Blight: The Neighborhood under Siege
4 Routes of Escape: Cold War Individualism and Community Ties
PART II The Urban Crisis and the Meanings of City Community
5 A Place Apart: The “New Ghetto” and the “Old Neighborhood”
6 Brilliant Corners: Representing the Inner City, from Outside and from Within
7 Peaceable Kingdoms: The Great Society Neighborhood in Stories for Children
PART III Defining Urban Pluralism in the Age of the Neighborhoods Movement
8 Elementary Republics and Little Platoons: The Neighborhood Self- Government Movement
9 “A Theology of Neighborhood”: Post–Vatican II Catholicism, Ethnic Revival, and City Space
10 Neighborhood Feminisms: Refi guring Gender in the Urban Village
11 Local Spaces and White House Races: Urban Communities and Presidential Politics
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Urban Communication Foundation: Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award
Finalist
American Studies Association: John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
Won
Urban History Association: Kenneth Jackson Award
Won
Organization of American Historians: Lawrence W. Levine Prize
Won
State Historical Society of Missouri: Missouri Conference on History Book Award
Won
Geography: Cultural and Historical Geography
History: American History | Urban History
Sociology: Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology
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