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A Sense of Identity in Highway Age America
A reflective essay tracing how postwar suburbia and shopping plazas erode old American city-states. The author contrasts Memphis and other cities with a vanishing civic center, warns of homogenized identities, and urges revitalizing diverse, regionally rooted communities through policy and culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southfield
Mass
Memphis
Tenn
Jackson
Danbury
Conn
Patchogue
L.I
America
Beale Street
Rim
California
Williamsburg
Sturbridge
Disney World
Baltimore
Louisville
Courier Journal
Vietnam
U.S. Postal Service