TY - JOUR
AU - Turner, Katherine Leonard
AB - 568 journal of social history winter 2005 complished reality from which Americans have strayed. Throughout the twen .. tieth century, that democratic ideal has teetered in balance with exclusionary ideals and investment." (p. 315) Isenberg's emphasis on real estate history, "a rernarkably understudied field," illuminates the ideas and people who evaluated and acted on downtowns throughout the country, as well as the trade ideas that informed them. In poring through real estate newsletters like Real Estate Analystand retail periodicals like Women's Wear Daily, Isenberg draws upon shared knowledge that informed de .. velopers and retailers around the country. Missing from this narrative, though, is the dynamic of downtown residences as Isenberg presents downtowns solely as commercial districts. This strand of the narrative could be informed by Paul Groth's Living Downtown on single residence occupancy hotels throughout the twentieth century and discussions of urban residential real estate dating at least as far back as Homer Hoyt's The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighbor... hoods in American Cities (1939) and Richard Hurd's Principles ofCity Land Values (1903,1924). (p. 12) Despite this lack, Downtown America is not only an interesting look at the his .. tory of commercial interests in urban business 
TI - Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. By Marina Moskowitz (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii plus 300 pp. $45.00)
JO - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1353/jsh.2005.0162
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/standard-of-living-the-measure-of-the-middle-class-in-modern-america-pgewHrc0Nw
SP - 568
EP - 570
VL - 39
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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