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First published 2023 by Cornell University Press
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mallach, Alan, author. | Swanstrom, Todd, author.
Title: The changing American neighborhood : the meaning of place in the twenty-first century / Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom.
Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023003097 (print) | LCCN 2023003098 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501770890 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501771132 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501770906 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501770913 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Neighborhoods—Social aspects—United States. | Neighborhoods—Economic aspects—United States. | City and town life—United States. | Urban economics.
Classification: LCC HT123 .M18 2023 (print) | LCC HT123 (ebook) | DDC 307.3/362—dc23/eng/20230303
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Cover image: Michelangelo Lovelace, Living for the City, 2000, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 69.5 inches. Collection of Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio. Gift of the artist. © Michelangelo Lovelace Estate. Courtesy of the estate and Fort Gansevoort, New York.