Developing expertise : architecture and real estate in metropolitan America / Sara Stevens.

Main entry:

Stevens, Sara (Sara Kathryn), author.

Title & Author:

Developing expertise : architecture and real estate in metropolitan America / Sara Stevens.

Publication:

New Haven [CT] : Yale University Press, [2016]

Description:

vii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-270) and index.
J.C. Nichols: stable investments in the suburbs -- The Urban Land Institute: suburban logics of urban renewal -- Equitable life assurance society: urban renewal as design by committee -- Herbert Greenwald: selling postwar modernism -- William Zeckendorf: entrepreneurial capitalism -- Real estate as unstable merchandise.

Summary:

"Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline of downtowns and the rise of suburbs into separate tales, Sara Stevens uses the figure of the real estate developer to explore how cities found new urban and architectural forms through both suburbanization and urban renewal. Through nuanced discussions of Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Denver, Washington, D.C., and New York, Stevens explains how real estate developers, though often maligned, have shaped public policy through professional organizations, promoted investment security through design, and brought suburban models to downtowns. In this timely book, she considers how developers partnered with prominent architects, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and I.M. Pei, to sell their modern urban visions to the public. By viewing real estate developers as a critical link between capital and construction in prewar suburban development and postwar urban renewal, Stevens offers an original and enlightening look at the complex connections among suburbs and downtowns, policy, finance, and architectural history."-- Back cover

ISBN:

9780300209938 (hardcover)
0300209932

Subject:

Cities and towns United States Growth History 20th century.
Urban renewal United States History 20th century.
Real estate development United States History 20th century.
Housing development United States History 20th century.
City planning United States History 20th century.
Urbanization United States History 20th century.
Villes États-Unis Croissance Histoire 20e siècle.
Rénovation urbaine États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Promotion immobilière États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Promotion résidentielle États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanisation États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Cities and towns Growth.
City planning.
Housing development.
Real estate development.
Urban renewal.
Urbanization.
Bauunternehmer
Investor
Bauwirtschaft
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtsanierung
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293569
Call No.: BIB 238670
Status: Available

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