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Where the River Burned : Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland /

In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in...

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Autores principales: Stradling, David (Autor), Stradling, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the crisis in the urban environment
  • What will become of Cleveland?
  • Hough and the urban crisis
  • Downtown and the limits of urban renewal
  • Policy and the polluted city
  • The burning river
  • From earth day to ecocity
  • Epilogue : what became of Cleveland.