Snowbelt Cities

Author : Richard M. Bernard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0253311772

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Snowbelt Cities by Richard M. Bernard Pdf

"A major contribution to the literature on changing US regionalism, the volume is handsomely produced and thoroughly documented." --Choice "... useful and well researched... " --American Politics Review "This is an excellent book for use in the course on comparative urban development... It is a book that should be read by any urbanist who believes that a historical orientation is the best prelude for understanding the future of urban development into the 21st century." --Urban Studies Specialists in urban history and urban affairs join forces to compare the recent political histories of twelve major northeastern and midwestern cities. These excellent essays delineate intricate patterns of political competition among leaders of competing groups, who generally agree on a pro-business, pro-growth agenda, as in the Sunbelt. The realtive power of nonbusiness groups, however, sets these northern cities apart from those of the Sunbelt and has formed the basis of the Snowbelt's postwar politics.

Author : Daniel Roland Fusfeld,Timothy Mason Bates
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0809311585

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The Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto by Daniel Roland Fusfeld,Timothy Mason Bates Pdf

The income of blacks in most northern industrial states today is lower relative to the income of whites than in 1949.Fusfeld and Bates examine the forces that have led to this state of affairs and find that these economic relationships are the product of a complex pattern of historical development and change in which black-white economic relation­ships play a major part, along with pat­terns of industrial, agricultural, and technological change and urban develop­ment. They argue that today's urban racial ghettos are the result of the same forces that created modern Amer­ica and that one of the by-products of American affluence is a ghettoized racial underclass. These two themes, they state, are es­sential for an understanding of the prob­lem and for the formulation of policy. Poverty is not simply the result of poor education, skills, and work habits but one outcome of the structure and func­tioning of the economy. Solutions re­quire more than policies that seek to change people: they await a recognition that basic economic relationships must be changed.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCR:31210024740688

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How Cities Can Grow Old Gracefully by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City Pdf

Author : Wanda Rushing
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780807898307

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Wanda Rushing Pdf

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective. Looking beyond the post-World War II era and the emergence of the Sunbelt economy to examine recent and contemporary developments, the 48 thematic essays consider the ongoing remarkable growth of southern urban centers, new immigration patterns (such as the influx of Latinos and the return-migration of many African Americans), booming regional entrepreneurial activities with global reach (such as the rise of the southern banking industry and companies such as CNN in Atlanta and FedEx in Memphis), and mounting challenges that result from these patterns (including population pressure and urban sprawl, aging and deteriorating infrastructure, gentrification, and state and local budget shortfalls). The 31 topical entries focus on individual cities and urban cultural elements, including Mardi Gras, Dollywood, and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Author : John M. Clapp
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0877666067

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Dynamics of Office Markets by John M. Clapp Pdf

Author : Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493083626

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The Making of Urban America by Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles Pdf

The 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. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.

Author : John Portz,Lana Stein,Robin R. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015048948460

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City Schools and City Politics by John Portz,Lana Stein,Robin R. Jones Pdf

An explanation of why some US cities are better at educational reform than others. It relates education to politics, showing how the whole village can be mobilized to better educate tomorrow's citizens. It is based on an 11-city study of civic capacity and urban education.

Author : Ester R. Fuchs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226267937

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Mayors and Money by Ester R. Fuchs Pdf

Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Ester R. Fuchs examines key policy decisions which have influenced the political structures of these cities and guided them into, or clear of, periods of economic crisis.

Author : Blake McKelvey
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1878822543

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Snow in the Cities by Blake McKelvey Pdf

The regular phenomenon of heavy snowfalls in the North American cities of the `snow belt' has had a marked influence on the communities affected; individuals and city authorities have both sought for ways to cope with the influence of snow storms on daily life. Making use of both official records and private and newspaper accounts from as far back as the Colonial period, the author traces the reactions heavy snows have provoked over the centuries, showing how communities have found increasingly sophisticated ways of dealing with the problems. He shows how the research prompted by the staggering costs have led to improved strategies, and details the moves towards the establishment of annual conferences on snow and its removal to pool experience and to find technological, fiscal and administrative responses to this regularly recurring phenomenon.BLAKE McKELVEYis former City Historian of Rochester, New York.

Author : Carlo Rotella
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520920101

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October Cities by Carlo Rotella Pdf

Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inner city, and Black Southerners arriving in Chicago found themselves increasingly estranged from the nation's economic and cultural resources. For Algren, Chicago was becoming "an October sort of city even in the spring," and as Carlo Rotella demonstrates, this metaphorical landscape of fall led Algren and others to forge a literary form that traced the American city's transformation. Narratives of decline, like the complementary narratives of black migration and inner-city life written by Claude Brown and Gwendolyn Brooks, became building blocks of the postindustrial urban literature. October Cities examines these narratives as they played out in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Manhattan. Through the work of Algren, Brown, Brooks, and other urban writers, Rotella explores the relationship of this new literature to the cities it draws upon for inspiration. The stories told are of neighborhoods and families molded by dramatic urban transformation on a grand scale with vast movements of capital and people, racial succession, and an intensely changing urban landscape.

Author : Peter Newman,Andy Thornley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230345393

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Planning World Cities by Peter Newman,Andy Thornley Pdf

This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning has played in the way cities have responded to the forces of globalization, and argue for the importance of diverse – rather than one-size-fits-all – planning practices. This fully revised second edition systematically brings the debates on the impact of globalization right up to date and provides integrated coverage of the latest planning theory and practice. It also contains extended analysis of the implications of the rapid growth of Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing. New material is included on the impact of globalization on poorer mega-cities like Mumbai and Johannesburg.

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Urban geography
ISBN : 9780415462013

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Urban Geography by Michael Pacione Pdf

This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.

Author : Ronan Paddison,Tom Hutton
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473908918

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Cities and Economic Change by Ronan Paddison,Tom Hutton Pdf

"An invaluable text for all those interested in cities and economic change. Empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and written in a highly accessible way to help students understand processes underlying the changing urban economy, urban governance, and the role of place." - Lily Kong, National University of Singapore "Editors and contributors leave readers in no doubt about the extent of the transformations coursing through urban economies in the global north and south." - Kevin Ward, University of Manchester "An essential read for anyone interested in the role of cities in the changing global space economy." - James Faulconbridge, Lancaster University "A timely and path-breaking contribution to the urban literature. It stands out as an excellent addition to the expanding urban library and a key reference on urban issues." - George C.S. Lin, Hong Kong University Cities and Economic Change combines a sound theoretical grounding with an empirical overview of the urban economy. Specific references are made to key emergent processes and debates including splintered labour markets, informal economies, consumption, a comparative discussion of North and South, and quantitative aspects of globalization. The text is clear and accessible, with pedagogical features and illustrative case studies integrated throughout. The use of boxes for city examples, key questions for discussion at the end of main chapters together with suggested readings and key web sites are designed to aid learning and understanding.

Author : Margaret O'Mara
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400866885

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Cities of Knowledge by Margaret O'Mara Pdf

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate. Margaret O'Mara shows that high-tech regions are not simply accidental market creations but "cities of knowledge"--planned communities of scientific production that were shaped and subsidized by the original venture capitalist, the Cold War defense complex. At the heart of the story is the American research university, an institution enriched by Cold War spending and actively engaged in economic development. The story of the city of knowledge broadens our understanding of postwar urban history and of the relationship between civil society and the state in late twentieth-century America. It leads us to further redefine the American suburb as being much more than formless "sprawl," and shows how it is in fact the ultimate post-industrial city. Understanding this history and geography is essential to planning for the future of the high-tech economy, and this book is must reading for anyone interested in building the next Silicon Valley.

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761928843

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Encyclopedia of American Urban History by David Goldfield Pdf

Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, this encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.