Mapping Decline : : St. Louis and the Fate of the American City / / Colin Gordon.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 78 color illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction. Our House: The Twentieth Century at 4635 North Market Street
- 1. Local Politics, Local Power: Governing Greater St. Louis, 1940-2000
- 2. ''The Steel Ring'': Race and Realty in Greater St. Louis
- 3. Patchwork Metropolis: Municipal Zoning in Greater St. Louis
- 4. Fighting Blight: Urban Renewal Policies and Programs, 1945-2188
- 5. 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
- Notes
- Index