Mapping Decline : St. Louis and the Fate of the American City /

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Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of America...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gordon, Colin, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban renewal.
Social conditions.
Slums.
Poor > Social conditions.
Inner cities.
African Americans > Social conditions.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Pauvres > Missouri > Saint Louis > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Missouri > Saint Louis > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Renovation urbaine > Missouri > Saint Louis.
Poor > Missouri > Saint Louis > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Missouri > Saint Louis > Social conditions > 20th century.
Slums > Missouri > Saint Louis.
Urban renewal > Missouri > Saint Louis.
Inner cities > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
Missouri > Saint Louis.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Our house : the twentieth century at 4635 North Market Street
  • Local politics, local power : governing greater St. Louis, 1940-2000
  • "The steel ring" : race and realty in greater St. Louis
  • Patchwork metropolis : municipal zoning in greater St. Louis
  • Fighting blight : urban renewal policies and programs, 1945-2000
  • City of blight : the limits of urban renewal in greater St. Louis
  • Conclusion: Our house revisited : the twenty-first century at 4635 North Market Street.

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