Private City, Public City:Power and Vision in American Cities

Journal of Urban History

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 437-462

  Fairfield, John D ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cincinnati; civic; historiography; Philadelphia; Sam Bass Warner Jr; Social mobility; Zone L. Miller

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; POWER RELATIONS; URBAN POLITICS; MOBILITY; URBAN HISTORY; URBAN SOCIETY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0141682692     PISSN: 00961442     EISSN: 15526771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096144203029004004     Document Type: Article

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117. John D. Fairfield has taught U.S. history at Xavier University in Cincinnati since 1984. His most recent publication is “The Park in the City: Baseball Landscapes Civically Considered” in Material History Review (2001).