Mapping decline : St. Louis and the fate of the American city /

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 America...

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Main Author: Gordon, Colin, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Our house : the twentieth century at 4635 North Market Street
  • Local politics, local power : governing greater St. Louis, 1940-2000
  • "The steel ring" : race and realty in greater St. Louis
  • Patchwork metropolis : municipal zoning in greater St. Louis
  • Fighting blight : urban renewal policies and programs, 1945-2000
  • City of blight : the limits of urban renewal in greater St. Louis
  • Conclusion: Our house revisited : the twenty-first century at 4635 North Market Street.