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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(1):228-231; doi:10.1093/es/khn011
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Alison Isenberg. Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xviii + 441 pp. ISBN 0-226-38508-6, $22.50 (paper)

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Although academic and popular observers have mourned the death of Main Street and blamed its decline on objective economic forces, Alison Isenberg challenges these assumptions in her monograph Downtown America. Currently an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, she began her study as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania. Isenberg focuses on the changing nature of commercial districts from the late nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that business people, municipal officials, city planners, real estate professionals, downtown residents, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Tanya Gogan

University of Western Ontario


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