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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):386-387; doi:10.1093/es/khn031
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Jon C. Teaford. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 306 pp. ISBN 0-231-13372-3, $74.50 (cloth); 0-231-13373-1, $27.50 (paper)
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Although there are several books that survey the history of twentieth-century US cities, most give short shrift to the constellation of changes that have beset metropolitan America in the last three decades. The urban crisis of the late 1960s and 1970s has typically made a convenient bookend for the century-long story of the rise and fall of urban-industrial America, with only brief glimpses of gentrification, immigration, edge cities, and other recent urban trends looming on the
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