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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: Mapping Decline
Author: Colin GordonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2628
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The Comprehensive City Plan, Kansas City, Kansas
Author: Harland Bartholomew & AssociatesPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Fractured Metropolis
Author: Gregory R. WeiherPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438423551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Separate City
Author: Christopher SilverPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the mid-1960s differed markedly from those of their northern counterparts. The African- American community in the South was (and to some extent still is) a physically expansive, distinct, and socially heterogeneous zone within the larger metropolis. It found itself functioning both politically and economically as a "separate city"—a city set apart from its predominantly white counterpart. Within the separate city itself, internal conflicts reflected a structural divide between an empowered black middle class and a larger group comprising the working class and the disadvantaged. Even with these conflicts, the South's new black leadership gained political control in many cities, but it could not overcome the economic forces shaping the metropolis. The persistence of a separate city admitted to the profound ineffectiveness of decades of struggle to eliminate the racial barriers with which southern urban leaders—indeed all urban America—continue to grapple today.
Special Report
Author: Report on the Social Statistics of Cities: The New England and the Middle States
Author: George Edwin Waring (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Housing References
Author: Annual Report
Author: Canada. Commission of ConservationPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description