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Harvard Square - A Love Story (Hardcover)
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Harvard Square - A Love Story (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R596
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“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”? Catherine J. Turco,
an economic sociologist and longtime denizen of Harvard Square, set
out to answer this question after she started to wonder about her
own complicated feelings concerning the changing Square. Diving
into Harvard Square’s past and present, Turco explores why we
love our local marketplaces and why we so often struggle with
changes in them. Along the way, she introduces readers to a
compelling set of characters, including the early twentieth-century
businessmen who bonded over scotch and cigars to found the Harvard
Square Business Association; a feisty, frugal landlady who became
one of the Square’s most powerful property owners in the
mid-1900s; a neighborhood group calling itself the Harvard Square
Defense Fund that fought real estate developers throughout the
1980s and ’90s; and a local businesswoman who, in recent years,
strove to keep her shop afloat amid personal tragedy, the rise of
Amazon, and a globalizing property market that sent her rent
soaring. Harvard Square tells the crazy, complicated love story of
one quirky little marketplace and in the process, reveals the
hidden love story Americans everywhere have long had with their own
Main Streets and downtowns. Offering a new and powerful lens that
exposes the stability and instability, the security and insecurity,
markets provide, Turco transforms how we think about our cherished
local marketplaces and markets in general. We come to see that our
relationship with the markets in our lives is, and has always been,
about our relationship with ourselves and one another, how we come
together and how we come apart.
General
Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2023 |
Authors: |
Catherine J. Turco
(Theodore T. Miller Career Development Professor)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
344 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-20928-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-231-20928-2 |
Barcode: |
9780231209281 |
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