The death and life of Main Street : small towns in American memory, space and community / Miles Orvell.

Author: Orvell, Miles.

Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

Descriptionxiii, 286 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Main street mythologies -- Fighting extinction: the reinvention of Main Street -- Living on Main Street: Sinclair Lewis and the great cultural divide -- Main Street as memory -- Main Street: belonging and not belonging -- Utopian dreams: from Forest Hills to Greenbelt -- Rethinking suburbia: Levittown or the new urbanism? -- Main Street in the city -- Conclusion: consuming Main Street.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-268) and index.

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