"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 h…
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Suburban Begets the Urban -- Chapter 1 J.C. Nichols: Stable Investments in the Suburbs -- Chapter 2 The Urban Land Institute: Suburban Logics of Urban Renewal -- Part II: Urba…
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 ho…