The “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh’s Renaissance’s apparent success quickly became a model for several struggling industrial cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
In A Good Place to Do Business, Roger Biles and Mark Rosechronicle these urban “makeovers” which promised increased tourism and fashionable shopping as well as the development of sports stadiums, convention centers, downtown parks, and more. They examine the politics of these government-funded redevelopment programs and show how city politics (and policymakers) often dictated the level of success.
As city officials and business elites determined to reorganize their downtowns, a deeply racialized politics sacrificed neighborhoods and the livelihoods of those pushed out. Yet, as A Good Place to Do Business demonstrates, more often than not, costly efforts to bring about the hoped-for improvements failed to revitalize those cities, or even their downtowns.
Автор: Bauman John F., Biles Roger, Szylvian Kristin M. Название: The Ever-Changing American City: 1945-Present ISBN: 1442201819 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442201811 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 22176.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and rebirth. Nor is it a strai...
Автор: Mohl Raymond A., Biles Roger Название: The Making of Urban America, 3rd Edition ISBN: 0742552357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780742552357 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 13517.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. This book is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also in
Автор: Bauman John F., Biles Roger, Szylvian Kristin M. Название: The Ever-Changing American City ISBN: 1442201827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442201828 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 13517.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and rebirth. Nor is it a strai...
Описание: In 1983, Harold Washington made history by becoming Chicago's first African American mayor. The racially charged campaign and election heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government.
Roger Biles's sweeping biography provides a definitive account of Washington and his journey. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the backroom deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing that fueled the Chicago machine's autocratic political regime. His alternative: a vision of fairness, transparency, neighborhood empowerment, and balanced economic growth at one with his emergence as a dynamic champion for African American uplift and a crusader for progressive causes. Biles charts the countless infamies of the Council Wars era and Washington's own growth through his winning of a second term--a promise of lasting reform left unfulfilled when the mayor died in 1987.
Original and authoritative, Mayor Harold Washington redefines a pivotal era in Chicago's modern history.
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