The Changing Image of the City: Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973 - Hardcover

Daly-Bednarek, Janet R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803216920 ISBN 13: 9780803216921

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

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Book by DalyBednarek Janet R

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"A solid addition to the field of urban and planning history. Unique in its emphasis on changing images or conceptions of the city."--Carl Abbott, author of Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth-Century City. "A model of analysis that should provide stimulus for similar studies of other cities. Valuable." Howard Chudacoff, coauthor of The Evolution of American Urban Society.

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The Changing Image of the City describes urban planning and development from the end of World War II to 1973, when major elements of the design of Nebraska's largest city were in place. Janet Daly-Bednarek shows how the appraches to planning shifted during a period that saw Omaha change from a hub of food processing and transportation to a postindustrial center dominated by insurance and by educational, medical, and other services. Finally, she surveys recent developments such as the Central Park Mall and the Old Market area in light of earlier plans and their implementation. In considering the changes that have occurred in Omaha, this book reveals much about the growth of professional urban planning in America. In Omaha, as elsewhere, planners dealt with power brokers, coped with rampant suburbanism and sprawling shopping malls, searched for ways to reverse the inner-city decay, and concerned themselves with historic preservation, beautification, and quality of life.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0803216920
• ISBN 13: 9780803216921
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304