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The Most Segregated City in America" : City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980 /

"Connerly effectively uses Birmingham's history as an example to argue the importance of recognizing the link that exists between city planning and civil rights. His demonstration of how Birmingham's race-based planning legacy led to the confrontations that culminated in the city'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Connerly, Charles E., 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Big Mules and Bottom Rails in the Magic City
  • Planning and Jim Crow
  • Planning, Neighborhood Change, and Civil Rights
  • "The Spirit of Racial Zoning"
  • Urban Renewal and Highways
  • Civil Rights and City Planning
  • The African American Planning Tradition in Birmingham
  • The Evolution of Black Neighborhood Empowerment.