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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008
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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.