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Touching on aging central cities, technoburbs, and the ongoing conflict between inner-city poverty and urban boosterism, The Twentieth-Century American City offers a broad, accessible overview of America's persistent struggle for a better city.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Problem, Promise, and Reality
2. The Century Begins, 1900–1919
The Downtown
The Neighborhoods
Righting the Urban Wrongs
3. Promises Thwarted
The Failure of Moral Reform
The Failure of Political Reform
The Imperfect Mosaic
Automobiles and the Promise of Suburbia
4. An Interlude in Urban Development, 1930–1945
The Depression
The Federal Response
The Wartime City
5. Suburbia Triumphant, 1945–1964
Suburban Boom
Central-City Bust
Reviving the Central City
6. An Age of "Urban Crisis," 1964–1979
Rebellion and Crime
Washington's Response to Urban Crisis
The Fiscal Crisis
The New Ethnic Politics
7. Toward a New Metropolis, 1980 and Beyond
Renaissance or Bust
The New Ethnic Mosaic
The Post-suburban Metropolis
8. The Turn-of-the-Century City
Revival amid the Ruins
Stopping Sprawl
Bibliographical Essay
Index

The TwentiethCentury American City

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 10 November 2016
      ISBN-13 9781421420387
      978-1421420387
      ISBN-10 1421420384
      Also in:
      Urban and municipal planning and policy Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Touching on aging central cities, technoburbs, and the ongoing conflict between inner-city poverty and urban boosterism, The Twentieth-Century American City offers a broad, accessible overview of America's persistent struggle for a better city.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. Problem, Promise, and Reality
      2. The Century Begins, 1900–1919
      The Downtown
      The Neighborhoods
      Righting the Urban Wrongs
      3. Promises Thwarted
      The Failure of Moral Reform
      The Failure of Political Reform
      The Imperfect Mosaic
      Automobiles and the Promise of Suburbia
      4. An Interlude in Urban Development, 1930–1945
      The Depression
      The Federal Response
      The Wartime City
      5. Suburbia Triumphant, 1945–1964
      Suburban Boom
      Central-City Bust
      Reviving the Central City
      6. An Age of "Urban Crisis," 1964–1979
      Rebellion and Crime
      Washington's Response to Urban Crisis
      The Fiscal Crisis
      The New Ethnic Politics
      7. Toward a New Metropolis, 1980 and Beyond
      Renaissance or Bust
      The New Ethnic Mosaic
      The Post-suburban Metropolis
      8. The Turn-of-the-Century City
      Revival amid the Ruins
      Stopping Sprawl
      Bibliographical Essay
      Index

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