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Places, Towns and Townships is a great resource for anyone in need of data for all of the nation's cities, towns, townships, villages, and Census-designated places in one convenient source. The information in this unique reference will not be updated for several years, making Places, Towns and Townships an invaluable resource in the years ahead.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, small towns sprouted up along the banks of America's rivers. Through a year of changing seasons the reader is transported to the days when people's livelihoods were directly connected to the river. The life of the townsfolk is shown to be an accumulation of events both large and small, from a joyous Halloween parade to the frozen river in winter to the threat of damaging springtime floods. Children and adults alike will pour over these pages of intricate etchings, noticing the changes and happenings of day-to-day, season-to-season life lived along a river. As they did in Prairie Town, the Geiserts have once again created a stunning tribute to small-town America as it once was and, to an extent, still remains today

Imagining place -- Not always a pariah: Birmingham's journey from Magic City to Bombingham -- Remembering Bombingham: race and anxiety in post-civil rights movement Birmingham -- Never quite American: the deviantly exotic reputation of San Francisco, 1776-1969 -- Battlefield by the bay: San Francisco's emergence, trials, and acceptance as America's gay mecca -- Sinning in the desert: the origins and development of America's Sin City -- Mainstream currents: Las Vegas and respectability at the turn the of the twenty-first century -- Stigma and cities

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. In the Beginning -- Chapter 2. What's in a Name? -- Chapter 3. 1,001 Girls and a Guy -- Chapter 4. Suffer the Little Children -- Chapter 5. Les Mesdames de Guy Town -- Chapter 6. Mixing the Colors -- Chapter 7. An Evening with Venus, a Lifetime with Mercury -- Chapter 8. Sister's Little Helpers -- Chapter 9. Fakir, Taker -- Chapter 10. Rough House Royalty -- Chapter 11. Cherchez La Femme, Cherchez L'Homme -- Chapter 12. One Lump or Three? -- Chapter 13. Turn Out the Lights, the Party's Over -- About the Author.

Introduction lean urbanism and the new pioneers -- Detroit: dawn of the dead -- The Cotton District and Seaside: the time machine -- Wynwood, Miami: birth of the cool -- New Orleans: a tale of two cities -- The Gulf Coast: language as a tool -- Newbern and San Diego: two schools of thought -- Phoenix: house of the rising sun -- Conclusion