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Bringing the civic back in : Zane L. Miller and American urban history /

This book commemorates the legacy of the late urban historian Zane L. Miller.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bennett, Larry, 1950- (Editor), Fairfield, John D., 1955- (Editor), Mooney-Melvin, Patricia (Editor), Stradling, David (writer of foreword.), Miller, Zane L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2022].
Series:Urban life, landscape, and policy.
Subjects:
Miller, Zane L.
Cities and towns > United States > History.
Urbanization > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to part I
  • Zane L. Miller, Fom Istanbul to Philadelphia: ideas and the urban origins of the United States
  • Zane L. Miller, The resiliency of cities and the uncertain future of American civic nationalism
  • Zane L. Miller, Cities, American civic nationalism, and fundamentalism
  • John D. Fairfield, "The metropolitan mode of thought": Zane L. Miller and the history of ideas
  • Robert B. Fairbanks, Creating cities in the post World War II southwest: the Arlington, Texas, and Mesa, Arizona, experiences
  • Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Claiming space: petrified ethnics, identity, and civic space
  • Charles Lester, "I see my job as helping you": Zane L. Miller the scholar, mentor, and friend
  • Larry Bennett, Working with Zane Miller
  • Appendix: A Zane L. Miller timeline and slected bibliography
  • Contributors.