Harvard Square : : A Love Story / / Catherine J. Turco.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Turco, Catherine J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 17 b&w photographs

“Harvard Square isn’t what it used to be.” Spend any time there, and you’re bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same thing for well over a century. So what does it really mean that Harvard Square—or any other beloved Main Street or downtown—“isn’t what it used to be”? Cat...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• INTRODUCTION
• PROLOGUE—SACRED SUNDAYS
• Chapter One—A Love Story Told from the Street Level
• PART 1: A LOT OF THE SAME, A LOT OF CHANGE
• Chapter Two—Not What It Used to Be
• Chapter Three—The Times They Are (Always) A-Changin’
• Chapter Four—A Tricky Relationship
• PART 2: CRAZY LOVE
• Chapter Five—Crazy Love
• Chapter Six—Everybody Get Together
• Chapter Seven—Forever Young
• Chapter Eight—Outside Agitators
• Chapter Nine—Whose Square? The Battle for Control
• Chapter Ten—Pulling Away
• Chapter Eleven—Different Markets, Different Perspectives
• CONCLUSION
• Chapter Twelve—Our Markets, Ourselves
• Chapter Thirteen—Reclaiming the Street Level
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• NOTES
• INDEX