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Sorting Out the New South City: Charlotte 1875 - 1975
Tom Hanchett's study of Charlotte's urban growth and planning, with emphasis on the surprising history of segregation by race and income. external link >>
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Salad Bowl Suburbs
In Charlotte and elsewhere across the US, a new metropolitan geography is appearing. more>>
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Shopping Center History
Every wonder why new shopping plazas keep popping up even when existing ones have vacant stores? That's one of the questions explored in this study of the money trail behind America's suburban landscape. external link>>
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WW Smith, black architect
A generation after slavery's end, Charlotte brick mason WW Smith became one of North Carolina's first African American architects. external link >>
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The Four Square House in the United States
Tom Hanchett's Masters Thesis submitted to the University of Chicago in 1986. Download 8.2 MG file
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History and architecture in Charlotte's older neighborhoods
Tom Hanchett came to Charlotte in 1981 to research older neighborhoods for the Historic Landmarks Commission. Links to his studies of neighborhoods, architects, planners and more >>
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Planner John Nolen
John Nolen, major figure in the dawn of city planning in the US, created Charlotte's Independence Park, 1905, and the garden suburb of Myers Park beginning in 1911.
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