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Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America Simon, Bryant (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Georgia)
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Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
Simon, Bryant (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Georgia)
During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort-the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is again one of America's most popular tourist spots, with thirty-fivemillion visitors a year. Simon's moving narrative of Atlantic City's past points to the troubling fate of urban America and the nation's cultural trajectory in the twentieth century, with broad implications for those interested in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, andhistory.
304 pages, 14 halftones, 1 map
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 29, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195167535 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 164 × 23 mm · 576 g |
| Language | English |
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