American College Town
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- ISBN 9781558498136
- Weight: 897g
- Dimensions: 176 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2009
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This is a Choice's 'Outstanding Academic Title'. The college town is a unique type of urban place, shaped by the sometimes conflicting forces of youth, intellect, and idealism. The hundreds of college towns in the United States are, in essence, an academic archipelago. Similar to one another, they differ in fundamental ways from other cities and the regions in which they are located. In this highly readable book - the first work published on the subject - Blake Gumprecht identifies the distinguishing features of college towns, explains why they have developed as they have in the United States, and examines in depth various characteristics that make them unusual. In eight thematic chapters, he explores some of the most interesting aspects of college towns - their distinctive residential and commercial districts, their unconventional political cultures, their status as bohemian islands, their emergence as high-tech centers, and more. Each of these chapters focuses on a single college town as an example, while providing additional evidence from other towns. Lively, richly detailed, and profusely illustrated with original maps and photographs, as well as historical images, this is an important book that firmly establishes the college town as an integral component of the American experience.
A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, BLAKE GUMPRECHT is an assistant professor of geography and American studies at the University of New Hampshire. His previous book, The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth, won the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers.
