The Paradox of Urban Revitalization : : Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era / / Howard Gillette.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Gillette, Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 30 b/w, 2 maps, 3 tables

In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to Oakland and elsewhere commentators saw cities rising again. Yet revitalization generated a second urban crisis marked by growing inequality and civil unrest reminiscent of the upheavals associated with the first urban crisis in the mid-twentieth century. The urban poor and residents of color have remained very much at a disadvantage in the face of racially biased capital investments, narrowing options for affordable housing, and mass incarceration. In profiling nine cities grappling with challenges of the twenty-first century, author Howard Gillette, Jr. evaluates the uneven efforts to secure racial and class equity as city fortunes have risen. Charting the tension between the practice of corporate subsidy and efforts to assure social justice, The Paradox of Urban Revitalization assesses the course of urban politics and policy over the past half century, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything, and details prospects for achieving greater equity in the years ahead.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part I. Captives of the Old Paradigm -- Chapter 1. Baltimore: Despite Multiple Rebirths, a City Still Divided -- Chapter 2. Detroit: Despite a Visionary Strategic Plan, a City Still Depressed -- Chapter 3. Camden: Despite Massive Business Incentives, Still a City of Limited Opportunity -- Part II. Shifting Ground -- Chapter 4. Milwaukee: Beyond the New Urbanism, Questions of Equity and Justice -- Chapter 5. New Haven: In a “Model City” Dominated by Eds and Meds, Still Contested Development -- Chapter 6. Washington, D.C.: In Chocolate City, a Fight to Hold On -- Part III. Breaking Through -- Chapter 7. Oakland: What Resistance Can Achieve -- Chapter 8. Pittsburgh: Where Equity Seeks to Catch Up with Innovation -- Chapter 9. Newark: The Hard Road to Inclusive Growth -- Conclusion -- Note -- Index -- Acknowledgments