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The changing American neighborhood : the meaning of place in the twenty-first century /

"This book explores the role and importance of neighborhoods in America today, the forces undermining them, and the challenges facing local actors seeking to build good neighborhoods. Synthesizing the literature on neighborhood change with original, interdisciplinary research, the book establis...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Mallach, Alan (Author), Swanstrom, Todd (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2023.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Why good neighborhoods?
  • Understanding neighborhood change: a dynamic systems approach
  • The rise of the American urban neighborhood, 1860-1950
  • The American urban neighborhood under siege, 1950-2000
  • The great divergence: the polarization of the American neighborhood, 1990-2020
  • Neighborhoods as markets
  • Neighborhoods in an era of demographic change and
  • Economic restructuring
  • Race and its continuing yet changing significance
  • Agents of change: city governments, community development corporations, anchor institutions, and others
  • Deconstructing gentrification
  • Can the center hold? The crisis of the urban middle neighborhood
  • Stuck in place: the persistence of concentrated poverty and disinvestment
  • Neighborhood change in the suburbs
  • Conclusion: the theory and practice of neighborhood change.