The Changing Image of the City: Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973

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The Changing Image of the City describes urban planning and development from the end of World War II to 1973, when major elements of the design of Nebraska’s largest city were in place. Janet Daly-Bednarek shows how the appraches to planning shifted throughout a period that saw Omaha change from a hub of food processing and transportation to a postindustrial center dominated by insurance and by educational, medical, and other products and services. After all, she surveys up to date developments such as the Central Park Mall and the Old Market area in light of in advance plans and their implementation.

In taking into account the changes that have occurred in Omaha, this book reveals much in regards to the growth of professional urban planning in The usa. In Omaha, as somewhere else, planners dealt with power brokers, coped with rampant suburbanism and sprawling shopping malls, searched for how one can reverse the inner-city decay, and concerned themselves with historic preservation, beautification, and quality of life.


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