The Rise Of The Sunbelt Cities

Author : David C. Perry,Alfred J. Watkins
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005786697

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The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities by David C. Perry,Alfred J. Watkins Pdf

Original contributions deal with one of the most intriguing developments in recent urban history -- the sudden economic and political rise of the Sunbelt cities in the American South. 'This is a provocative book. Its essays go substantially beyond popular treatments of southward shifts in population and economics. They put the rise of sunbelt cities into the context of American urban history, and clarify the events taking place in various urban strata...All told, the book will carry its weight as a supplement to urban politics courses at the undergraduate level and several of its pieces will find themselves widely cited by specialists in the field.' -- American Political Science Review, Vol 73, September 1979

Author : Richard M. Bernard,Bradley Robert Rice
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292769823

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Sunbelt Cities by Richard M. Bernard,Bradley Robert Rice Pdf

Between 1940 and 1980, the Sunbelt region of the United States grew in population by 112 percent, while the older, graying Northeast and Midwest together grew by only 42 percent. Phoenix expanded by an astonishing 1,138 percent. San Diego, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Tampa, Miami, and Atlanta quadrupled in size. Even a Sunbelt laggard such as New Orleans more than doubled its population. Sunbelt Cities brings together a collection of outstanding original essays on the growth and late-twentieth-century political development of the major metropolitan areas below the thirty-seventh parallel. The cities surveyed are Albuquerque, Atlanta, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, and Tampa. Each author examines the economic and social causes of postwar population growth in the city under consideration and the resulting changes in its political climate. Major causes of growth such as changing economic conditions, industrial recruitment, lifestyle preferences, and climate are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the role of the federal government, especially the Pentagon, in encouraging development in the Sunbelt. Describing characteristic political developments of many of these cities, the authors note shifting political alliances, the ouster of machines and business elites from political power, and the rise of minority and neighborhood groups in local politics. Sunbelt Cities is the first full-scale scholarly examination of the region popularly conceived as the Sunbelt. As one of the first works to thoroughly examine a wide range of cities within the region, it has served as a standard reference on the area for some time.

Author : Michelle Nickerson,Darren Dochuk
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812243093

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Sunbelt Rising by Michelle Nickerson,Darren Dochuk Pdf

This volume examines patterns of growth, government organization, and cultural representation that created a new region across the nation's southern rim following World War II. Essays explain how ideology and political economy restructured space within the Sunbelt, making the landscape and lives of its inhabitants more uniformly metropolitan.

Author : Justin B. Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136849091

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Sunburnt Cities by Justin B. Hollander Pdf

In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Central to that demand is the increasing urgency of addressing the issue of urban decline, and the response has almost always been to pursue growth policies to attempt to reverse that decline. The track record of growth policies has been mixed at best. Until the first decade of the twenty-first century decline was assumed to be an issue only for former industrial cities – the so-called Rust Belt. But the sudden reversal in growth in the major cities of the American Sunbelt has shown that urban decline can be a much wider issue. Justin Hollander’s research into urban decline in both the Sun and Rust Belts draws lessons planners and policy makers that can be applied universally. Hollander addresses the reasons and statistics behind these "shrinking cities" with a positive outlook, arguing that growth for growth’s sake is not beneficial for communities, suggesting instead that urban development could be achieved through shrinkage. Case studies on Phoenix, Flint, Orlando and Fresno support the argument, and Hollander delves into the numbers, literature and individual lives affected and how they have changed in response to the declining regions. Written for urban scholars and to suit a wide range of courses focused on contemporary urban studies, this text forms a base for all study on shrinking cities for professionals, academics and students in urban design, planning, public administration and sociology.

Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021654473

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The New Urban America by Carl Abbott Pdf

New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities, revised edition

Author : Sean P. Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024526

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American Politics in the Postwar Sunbelt by Sean P. Cunningham Pdf

This book analyzes the political culture of the American Sunbelt since the end of World War II. It highlights and explains the Sunbelt's emergence during the second half of the twentieth century as the undisputed geographic epicenter for conservative Republican power in the United States. However, the book also investigates the ongoing nature of political contestation within the postwar Sunbelt, often highlighting the underappreciated persistence of liberal and progressive influences across the region. Sean P. Cunningham argues that the conservative Republican ascendancy that so many have identified as almost synonymous with the rise of the postwar American Sunbelt was hardly an easy, unobstructed victory march. Rather, it was consistently challenged and never foreordained. The history of American politics in the postwar Sunbelt resembles a rollercoaster of partisan and ideological adaptation and transformation.

Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 078379018X

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The New Urban America by Carl Abbott Pdf

Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253209145

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Cities of the Heartland by Jon C. Teaford Pdf

"Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis." —Library Journal Teaford writes a definitive history of the transformation of "America's heartland" into the "Rust Belt," chronicling the development of the cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East, from their heyday to the trying times of the 1970s and '80s. The early part of this century brought wealth and promise to the heartland: automobile production made Detroit a boomtown, and automobile-related industries enriched communities; Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School of architects asserted the Midwest's aesthetic independence; Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg established Chicago as a literary mecca; Jane Addams made the Illinois metropolis an urban laboratory for experiments in social justice. Soon, however, emerging Sunbelt cities began to rob such cities as Cincinnati, Saint Louis, and Chicago of their distinction as boom areas, foreshadowing urban crisis.

Author : Eugene P. Moehring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0874172675

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Resort City in the Sunbelt by Eugene P. Moehring Pdf

This is an account of Las Vegas, from the building of the Hoover Dam to the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel. It traces the city's development, focusing on issues common to sunbelt cities across the United States, such as underfunded social services and a mania for low taxes.

Author : Richard M. Bernard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812244700

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Sunbelt Capitalism by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Pdf

Historian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer examines how Barry Goldwater and elite Phoenix businessmen used policy and federal funds to fashion a postwar "business climate," setting off an interstate competition for investment that transformed American politics.

Author : Robert A. Beauregard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452909134

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When America Became Suburban by Robert A. Beauregard Pdf

In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that emphasized consumerism, social mobility, and a suburban lifestyle. The urbanity of the city was lost. In When America Became Suburban, Robert A. Beauregard examines this historic intersection of urban decline, mass suburbanization, domestic prosperity, and U.S. global aspirations as it unfolded from 1945 to the mid-1970s. Suburban expansion and the subsequent emergence of sprawling Sunbelt cities transformed every aspect of American society. Assessing the global implications of America’s suburban way of life as evidence of the superiority of capitalist democracy, Beauregard traces how the suburban ideology enabled America to distinguish itself from both the Communist bloc and Western Europe, thereby deepening its claim of exceptionalism on the world-historical stage. Placing the decline of America’s industrial cities and the rise of vast suburban housing and retail spaces into a cultural, political, and global context, Beauregard illuminates how these phenomena contributed to a changing notion of America’s identity at home and abroad. When America Became Suburban brings to light the profound implications of de-urbanization: from the siphoning of investments from the cities and the effect on the quality of life for those left behind to a profound shift in national identity. Robert A. Beauregard is a professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities and editor of Economic Restructuring and Political Response and Atop the Urban Hierarchy.

Author : Bruce J. Schulman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822315378

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From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt by Bruce J. Schulman Pdf

From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt investigates the effects of federal policy on the American South from 1938 until 1980 and charts the close relationship between federal efforts to reform the South and the evolution of activist government in the modern United States. Decrying the South's economic backwardness and political conservatism, the Roosevelt Administration launched a series of programs to reorder the Southern economy in the 1930s. After 1950, however, the social welfare state had been replaced by the national security state as the South's principal benefactor. Bruce J. Schulman contrasts the diminished role of national welfare initiatives in the postwar South with the expansion of military and defense-related programs. He analyzes the contributions of these growth-oriented programs to the South's remarkable economic expansion, to the development of American liberalism, and to the excruciating limits of Sunbelt prosperity, ultimately relating these developments to southern politics and race relations. By linking the history of the South with the history of national public policy, Schulman unites two issues that dominate the domestic history of postwar America--the emergence of the Sunbelt and the expansion of federal power over the nation's economic and social life. A forcefully argued work, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt, originally published in 1991(Oxford University Press), will be an important guide to students and scholars of federal policy and modern Southern history.

Author : Raymond A. Mohl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0842026398

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The Making of Urban America by Raymond A. Mohl Pdf

This second edition is designed to introduce students of urban history to recent interpretive literature in this field. Its goal is to provide a coherent framework for understanding the pattern of American urbanization, while at the same time offering specific examples of the work of historians in the field.

Author : Eliot Tretter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Austin (Tex.)
ISBN : 9780820344881

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Shadows of a Sunbelt City by Eliot Tretter Pdf

Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban successstories--a place that has grown enormously through "creative class" strategies. In Shadows of a Sunbelt City, Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar story by exploring the racial and environmental underpinnings of the postindustrial knowledge economy.