Voices of decline : the postwar fate of U.S. cities /

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Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on how commentators crafted a discourse of urban decline and prosperity peculiar to the post-World War II era. The efforts of these commentators spoke to the founda...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beauregard, Robert A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Since 1945
Cities and towns > United States.
Urban policy > United States.
Metropolitan areas > United States.
Inner cities > United States.
Villes > États-Unis.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns
Inner cities
Metropolitan areas
Social conditions
Urban policy
Stadtentwicklung
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Framing the Discourse
  • Foundational Urban Debates
  • Prelude to Postwar Decline
  • The Cities Wholesome and Good
  • Not Those of Decadence
  • Escalating Downward
  • The Unhappy Process of Changing
  • On the Verge of Catastrophe
  • From One Crisis to the Next
  • Every Problem a Racial Dimension
  • Crisis of Our Cities
  • A Double Reversal of Fortune
  • Rising from the Ashes
  • Not Excessively Inconvenienced.

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