| Physical description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title ; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Foundations of an American Dream; 3. Artifacts of the Planned City; 4. Building an Industrial Community; 5. The Human Factor; 6. The Model City in Depression and War; 7. Kingsport in Transition; 8. Dismantling the Model City; 9. Epilogue; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
Kingsport, Tennessee, was the first thoroughly diversified, professionally planned, and privately financed city in twentieth-century America. The advent of this so-called model city, a glittering new industrial jewel in the green mountains, offered area residents an alternative to rural life and staid small-town existence as the new century dawned. Neither an Appalachian hamlet nor a company town, Kingsport developed as a self-proclaimed "All-American City." |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Tennessee -- History.
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City planning -- Tennessee -- History.
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Kingsport (Tenn.) -- History.
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History |
| ISBN |
9780813156347 (electronic bk.) |
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0813156343 (electronic bk.) |
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0813116244 |
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9780813116242 |
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