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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and Culture in Modern AmericaPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 78 color illusContent type:
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  • 9780812220940
  • 9780812291506
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form."Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy-and often sheer folly-of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history.Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps-rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records-illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.
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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

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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 American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form."Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy-and often sheer folly-of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history.Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps-rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records-illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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