Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning - Couverture souple

Moga, Steven T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022683333X ISBN 13 : 9780226833330

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2024

Synopsis

Interrogates the connections between a city’s physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points.

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City, Black Bottom in Nashville, Swede Hollow in Saint Paul, and the Flats in Los Angeles, to interrogate the connections between a city’s actual landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective on the history of US urban development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Moga reveals patterns of inequitable land use, economic dispossession, and social discrimination against immigrants and minorities. In attending to the landscapes of neighborhoods typically considered slums, Moga shows how physical and policy-driven containment has shaped the lives of the urban poor, while wealth and access to resources have been historically concentrated in elevated areas—truly “the heights.” Moga’s innovative framework expands our understanding of how planning and economic segregation alike have molded the American city.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Steven T. Moga is associate professor of landscape studies at Smith College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022683333X
• ISBN 13: 9780226833330
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 227
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