Main Street Revisited Main Street Revisited
American Land & Life

Main Street Revisited

Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America

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Publisher Description

As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America’s most popular and idealized images. In Main Street Revisited, the first book to place the design of small downtowns in spatial and chronological context, Richard Francaviglia finds the sources of romanticized images of this archetype, including Walt Disney’s Main Street USA, in towns as diverse as Marceline, Missouri, and Fort Collins, Colorado.

Francaviglia interprets Main Street both as a real place and as an expression of collective assumptions, designs, and myths; his Main Streets are treasure troves of historic patterns. Using many historical and contemporary photographs and maps for his extensive fieldwork and research, he reveals a rich regional pattern of small-town development that serves as the basis for American community design. He underscores the significance of time in the development of Main Street’s distinctive personality, focuses on the importance of space in the creation of place, and concentrates on popular images that have enshrined Main Street in the collective American consciousness.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
1996
June 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Iowa Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
14.2
MB

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