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- catalog abstract ""This unique work analyzes urban America in a series of 547 signed articles. Biographical articles include Jane Addams, Marion Barry, Al Capone, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lewis Mumford, and Lincoln Steffens, while topical entries cover mass transit, social welfare, residential construction, mill towns, and boom towns. Others deal with religious, racial and ethnic topics such as Shaker villages, Native Americans, African-American towns, and African Americans in cities. A bibliography follows each article, and the book concludes with an extensive 9-page selected bibliography on urban America. This work provides a comprehensive view of the colorful past of American cities and discusses current problems faced by modern cities and suburbs. Large public, college, and university libraries will find this a very useful tool".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.".
- catalog contributor b10523254.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""This unique work analyzes urban America in a series of 547 signed articles. Biographical articles include Jane Addams, Marion Barry, Al Capone, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lewis Mumford, and Lincoln Steffens, while topical entries cover mass transit, social welfare, residential construction, mill towns, and boom towns. Others deal with religious, racial and ethnic topics such as Shaker villages, Native Americans, African-American towns, and African Americans in cities. A bibliography follows each article, and the book concludes with an extensive 9-page selected bibliography on urban America. This work provides a comprehensive view of the colorful past of American cities and discusses current problems faced by modern cities and suburbs. Large public, college, and university libraries will find this a very useful tool".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "v. 1. A-L -- v. 2. M-Z.".
- catalog extent "2 v. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Encyclopedia of urban America.".
- catalog identifier "0874368464 (set)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Encyclopedia of urban America.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO,".
- catalog relation "Encyclopedia of urban America.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "307.76/0973/03 21".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns United States Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns United States History.".
- catalog subject "City planning United States History.".
- catalog subject "HT123 .E5 1998".
- catalog subject "Suburbs United States Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "Suburbs United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "v. 1. A-L -- v. 2. M-Z.".
- catalog title "Encyclopedia of urban America : the cities and suburbs / Neil Larry Shumsky, editor.".
- catalog type "Encyclopedias. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".