| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Visions of Place: The City, Neighborhoods, Suburbs, and Cincinnati's Clifton, 1850–2000. By Zane L. Miller. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. xii, 217 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8142-0859-2.)

In Visions of Place, a study of his hometown Clifton, Ohio, Zane L. Miller argues that, while urban historians have studied the histories of more recent suburbs, they have neglected "outer-city neighborhoods that sit between the oldest districts at the center and the newer ones on the peripheries of American metropolitan areas." 1

Clifton was founded as an elite suburb of the Queen City in the 1840s. Through much of the nineteenth century, the northern half of Clifton was an isolated and idyllic place of large estates and opulent homes. As the city's transportation system expanded after the Civil War, many commuters settled in the decidedly less ornate and more middle-class "south" Clifton. Annexed by Cincinnati in 1896, Clifton continued to be viewed by residents and the city "as a place both of and in Cincinnati" that would continue to be a barrier to the blight and slumlike conditions that were beginning to spread in the early to middle twentieth century. . . .

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