Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America

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M/~IN STI~I:I:T I~I:"ISITI:I) The American Land 6 Life Series EDITED BY WAYNE FRANKLIN Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America Foreword by Wayne Franklin University ofIowa Press Iowa City AIN ST. EAST, HARTFORD, MICH, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242Copyright © 1996 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica Design by Richard Hendel No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Francaviglia, Richard V Main street revisited: time, space, and image building in small-town America / by Richard V Francaviglia; foreword by Wayne Franklin. p. cm. - (The American land and life series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-542-2 (cloth), ISBN 0-87745-543-0 (pbk.) 1. City planning- United States. 2. City planning- United StatesMaps . 3- City planning - United States - Pictorial works. 4- City and town life- United States. I. Title. II. Series. HTl67·F73 1996 95-47773 CIP Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well-builded, ... make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. - Alcaeus, quoted in Aristides, Rhodian Oration Dedicated to EDWARD T. PRICE Now Professor Emeritus, University ofOregon, who as my major professor and writer of important landscape studies encouraged, inspired, and nurtured my interest in townscapes at the University ofOregon in the late 1960s ...