Downtown: its rise and fall, 1880-1950

The business district: downtown in the late nineteenth century

Derailing the subways: the politics of rapid transit

The sacred skyline: the battle over height limits

The central business district: downtown in the 1920s

The specter of decentralization: downtown during the Great Depression and World War II

Wishful thinking: downtown and the automotive revolution

Inventing blight: downtown and the origins for urban redevelopment

Just another business district? Downtown in the mid twentieth century.