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Developing expertise : architecture and real estate in metropolitan America / Sara Stevens.
Author
Stevens, Sara (Sara Kathryn)
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven [CT] : Yale University Press, [2016]
Description
vii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
NA9108 .S87 2016
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Subject(s)
Cities and towns
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United States
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Growth
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History
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20th century
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Urban renewal
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Real estate development
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Housing development
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United States
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History
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20th century
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City planning
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Urbanization
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Summary note
"Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline of downtowns and the rise of suburbs into separate tales, Sara Stevens uses the figure of the real estate developer to explore how cities found new urban and architectural forms through both suburbanization and urban renewal. Through nuanced discussions of Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Denver, Washington, D.C., and New York, Stevens explains how real estate developers, though often maligned, have shaped public policy through professional organizations, promoted investment security through design, and brought suburban models to downtowns. In this timely book, she considers how developers partnered with prominent architects, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and I.M. Pei, to sell their modern urban visions to the public. By viewing real estate developers as a critical link between capital and construction in prewar suburban development and postwar urban renewal, Stevens offers an original and enlightening look at the complex connections among suburbs and downtowns, policy, finance, and architectural history."-- Back cover
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-270) and index.
Contents
J.C. Nichols: stable investments in the suburbs
The Urban Land Institute: suburban logics of urban renewal
Equitable life assurance society: urban renewal as design by committee
Herbert Greenwald: selling postwar modernism
William Zeckendorf: entrepreneurial capitalism
Real estate as unstable merchandise.
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ISBN
9780300209938 ((hardcover))
0300209932
LCCN
2015956226
OCLC
959887289
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