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Camden after the fall : decline and renewal in a post-industrial city /
"Looking at the cumulative effects of urban decline in the classic post-industrial city of Camden, New Jersey, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., probes the interaction of politics, economic restructuring, and racial bias to evaluate contemporary efforts at revitalization. In a sweeping analysis,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Looking at the cumulative effects of urban decline in the classic post-industrial city of Camden, New Jersey, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., probes the interaction of politics, economic restructuring, and racial bias to evaluate contemporary efforts at revitalization. In a sweeping analysis, Gillette identifies a number of related factors to explain this phenomenon, including the corrosive effects of concentrated poverty, environmental injustice, and a political bias that favors suburban amenity over urban reconstruction."--Jacket. |
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| Notas: | First paperback edition published 2006. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812205275 0812205278 0812238974 9780812238976 |