Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heating
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Uniform Mechanical Code
Author: The Baltimore City Code
Author: Baltimore (Md.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal charters
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Public local laws
Author: MarylandBlockbusting in Baltimore
Author: W. Edward OrserPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.
The Baltimore City Code, Containing the Public Local Laws of Maryland Relating to the City of Baltimore and the Ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in Force on the First Day of July, 1906
Author: Baltimore (Md.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
Book Description
Supplement to the Baltimore City Code
Author: Baltimore (Md.).The Baltimore City Code: Comprising the Statutes and Ordinances Relating to the City of Baltimore. Compiled by Lewis Mayer
Author: Baltimore Sons
Author: Dean Bartoli SmithPublisher: Stillhouse Press
ISBN: 9781945233128
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Frank, unsparing, often violent and disturbing, these poems speak in the voice of a young man trying to navigate the city he loves as he lives in the long shadow of his father's suffocating obsession with firearms. With the city of Baltimore as his backdrop, accomplished poet, author, and editor Dean Bartoli Smith offers a wrenching examination of our troubled attachments to place and the deepest wounds of the American psyche.
Author: Baltimore (Md.)
Author: Baltimore