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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Moga makes an exceptionally persuasive case regarding the factors shaping the development of lowland areas. He clearly establishes the importance of disease theory and racial attitudes as critical to urban decision-making. What is most impressive about Urban Lowlands is that Moga seamlessly connects his story of bottomlands to larger developments in urban planning in the post-1930s period."--David Soll, author of Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York Water
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Low Wards
1 From Bottomlands to Bottom Neighborhoods
2 Harlem Flats New York, New York
3 Black Bottom Nashville, Tennessee
4 Swede Hollow Saint Paul, Minnesota
5 The FlatsLos Angeles, California
6 Landscapes of Poverty and Power
Epilogue: Lowland Legacies
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
