History South
"Tom Hanchett, the staff historian at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, N.C., coined the useful term 'salad bowl suburbs' in 2008 to describe post-World War II suburbs where 'newcomer and native-born intermingle without ethnic boundaries.'" NY Times 2.23.11
Architectural detail ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING
Sorting Out the New South City

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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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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Charlotte Landmarks

Historian Tom Hanchett came to Charlotte in 1981 to conduct an architectural survey of older neighborhoods. His work is found throughout this external link >>

 

 

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