TY - BOOK AU - Wolfe,Margaret Ripley TI - Kingsport, Tennessee: a planned American city SN - 9780813156347 AV - F444 .K564 1987 PY - 1987/// CY - Lexington PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - City and town life KW - Tennessee KW - History KW - City planning KW - Kingsport (Tenn.) KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 2; b N2 - Kingsport, Tennessee, was the first thoroughly diversified, professionally planned, and privately financed city in twentieth-century America. The advent of this so-called model city, a glittering new industrial jewel in the green mountains, offered area residents an alternative to rural life and staid small-town existence as the new century dawned. Neither an Appalachian hamlet nor a company town, Kingsport developed as a self-proclaimed "All-American City." UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938312&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -