An edition of Modernizing Main Street (2008)
Modernizing Main Street
Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places)
By Gabrielle Esperdy
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Publish Date
May 1, 2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press,University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
304
Description:
An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across America. This book uncovers the cultural history of the hundreds of thousands of modernized storefronts that resulted from this federal provision.