"Traces the transformation of commercial development as it has moved from centralized main streets, out along the street car lines, to form the "miracle miles"
First published in 1985, Chester Liebs' Main Street to Miracle Mile established the twentieth-century roadside landscape as a subject for serious study. Liebs t
An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America
Popular culture, Francaviglia looks sympathetically but realistically at the ways in which Main Street's image developed and persists. He reaffirms that life ca
Although vernacular architecture scholarship has expanded beyond its core fascination with common buildings and places, its attention remains fixed on the socia