"This is the first book devoted to an examination of the significance of historical districts from a historian's point of view." -"Urban Studies" Historic Districts in the United States now number over 8,000; the phenomenon of the Historic District has been of special interest to those concerned with historic preservation and town planning, but there has been no analysis of such districts' significance from a historian's point of view. "History in Urban Places" explores the connections between American urban history and historic preservation. A frequent criticism of historic districts is that...