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

Daly-Bednarek, Janet R.

 
9780803216921: The Changing Image of the City: Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0803216920 ISBN 13 : 9780803216921
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

A native of Omaha, Janet R. Daly-Bednarek holds a Ph. D. degree in history from the University of Pittsburgh and is now employed in the U. S. Air Force's history program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803216920
ISBN 13 
9780803216921
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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Personne responsable
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