A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945 - Couverture souple

Biles, Roger; Rose, Mark H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1439920826 ISBN 13 : 9781439920824

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger Biles is Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University and the author, coauthor or editor of several books, most recently Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago.
Mark H. Rose is Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University, and the author, coauthor, or coeditor of seven books including Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy since 1939; and Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439920826
• ISBN 13: 9781439920824
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 362
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• Personne responsable: non disponible