Camden After the Fall : : Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City / / Howard Gillette.
What prevents cities whose economies have been devastated by the flight of human and monetary capital from returning to self-sufficiency? Looking at the cumulative effects of urban decline in the classic post-industrial city of Camden, New Jersey, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., probes the interacti...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 34 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I. Shifting Fortunes
- Chapter 1. A City That Worked
- Chapter 2. Camden Transformed
- PART II. Shifting Power
- Chapter 3. To Save Our City
- Chapter 4. From City to County: The Rise of the Suburban Power Structure
- PART III. Shifting Strategy
- Chapter 5. The Downtown Waterfront: Changing Camden's Image
- Chapter 6. The Neighborhoods: Not by Faith Alone
- Chapter 7. The Courts: Seeking Justice and Fairness
- PART IV. Shifting Prospects
- Chapter 8. The Politics of Recovery
- Chapter 9. Future Camden: Reinventing the City, Engaging the Region
- Conclusion
- Note on Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments