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

2008 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812220943 ;ISBN: 9780812220940 ;ISBN: 0812291506 ;ISBN: 9780812291506 ;ISBN: 9780812240702 ;ISBN: 0812240707 ;EISBN: 0812291506 ;EISBN: 9780812291506 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812291506 ;OCLC: 929158477

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Title:
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
Author: Gordon, Colin
Subjects: 20th Century ; African Americans ; African Americans-Missouri-Saint Louis-Social conditions-20th century ; HISTORY ; Inner cities ; Inner cities-Missouri-Saint Louis-History-20th century ; Inner city ; Missouri ; Poor ; Poor-Missouri-Saint Louis-Social conditions-20th century ; Poverty ; Saint Louis (Mo.)-Social conditions-20th century ; Slums ; Slums-Missouri-Saint Louis ; Social conditions ; Social history ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; St. Louis ; U.S.A ; United States ; Urban ; Urban renewal ; Urban renewal-Missouri-Saint Louis
Description: 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 Declineexamines 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 Declineis 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.
Related Titles: Politics and Culture in Modern America
Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Creation Date: 2014
Format: 304
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 0812220943
ISBN: 9780812220940
ISBN: 0812291506
ISBN: 9780812291506
ISBN: 9780812240702
ISBN: 0812240707
EISBN: 0812291506
EISBN: 9780812291506
DOI: 10.9783/9780812291506
OCLC: 929158477
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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

2008 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812220943 ;ISBN: 9780812220940 ;ISBN: 0812291506 ;ISBN: 9780812291506 ;ISBN: 9780812240702 ;ISBN: 0812240707 ;EISBN: 0812291506 ;EISBN: 9780812291506 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812291506 ;OCLC: 929158477

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