Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States / / Domenic Vitiello, Thomas J. Sugrue.

In less than a generation, the dominant image of American cities has transformed from one of crisis to revitalization. Poverty, violence, and distressed schools still make headlines, but central cities and older suburbs are attracting new residents and substantial capital investment. In most account...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 78 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Immigration and the New American Metropolis
  • Chapter 1. Immigration and the New Social Transformation of the American City
  • Chapter 2. Estimating the Impact of Immigration on County-Level Economic Indicators
  • Chapter 3. Immigrants, Housing Demand, and the Economic Cycle
  • Chapter 4. Revitalizing the Suburbs: Immigrants in Greater Boston Since the 1980s
  • Chapter 5. Immigrant Cities as Reservations for Low- Wage Labor
  • Chapter 6. Old Maps and New Neighbors: The Spatial Politics of Immigrant Settlement
  • Chapter 7. Transforming Transit-Oriented Development Projects via Immigrant-Led Revitalization: The MacArthur Park Case
  • Chapter 8. Migrantes, Barrios, and Infraestructura: Transnational Processes of Urban Revitalization in Chicago
  • Chapter 9. Liberian Reconstruction, Transnational Development, and Pan-African Community Revitalization
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments