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A Good Place to Do Business
- The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945
Engelsk Paperback
A Good Place to Do Business
- The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945
Engelsk Paperback

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The “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh’s Renaissance’s apparent success quickly became a model for several struggling industrial cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia. In A Good Place to Do Business, Roger Biles and Mark Rose chronicle these urban “makeovers” which promised increased tourism and fashionable shopping as well as the development of sports stadiums, convention centers, downtown parks, and more. They examine the politics of these government-funded redevelopment programs and show how city politics (and policymakers) often dictated the level of success. As city officials and business elites determined to reorganize their downtowns, a deeply racialized politics sacrificed neighborhoods and the livelihoods of those pushed out. Yet, as A Good Place to Do Business demonstrates, more often than not, costly efforts to bring about the hoped-for improvements failed to revitalize those cities, or even their downtowns.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
362
ISBN-13:
9781439920824
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1439920826
Udg. Dato:
28 okt 2022
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Temple University Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato:
28 okt 2022
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