| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 222 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Part I: Finding and Using New Sources of Data. Chapter 1: Toward a More Complete Reckoning: Renewing Inequality and New Histories of Urban Renewal / Brent Cebul & Robert K. Nelson -- Chapter 2: Toward a Social History of Urban Renewal / David Hochfelder -- Part II: Telling the Stories of Urban Renewal. Chapter 3: Modernizing the Mill Town: Space, Power, and Urban Renewal in Waterville, Maine / Benjamin D. Lisle -- Chapter 4: Slums as a Problem, Not an Excuse: Urban Renewal in Growing Texas Towns / Robert B. Fairbanks -- Chapter 5: Three Views of Urban Renewal in Puerto Rico / Douglas R. Appler -- Chapter 6: The "Developer of Last Resort": The New York State Urban Development Corporation / Stacy Kinlock Sewell -- Chapter 7: The Dispossessed: Urban Renewal and Relocation in St. Louis County / Colin Gordon -- Chapter 8: Healthy Housing and the Health of the State / Leif Fredrickson -- Chapter 9: Urban Renewal through Rehabilitation and Restoration / Francesca Russello Ammon |
| Summary |
"Examines the impact of urban renewal programs on small cities and other under-explored U.S. sites"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
The chapters included in this book were originally presented at a conference titled Reassessing the History of the Federal Urban Renewal Program: 1949-1974 on September 27, 2019 at the University of Kentucky |
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Chapter 7 was adapted with permission from Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 19, 2023) |
| Subject |
Urban renewal -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Urban renewal -- United States -- Case studies
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Urban renewal
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Appler, Douglas R., editor.
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| LC no. |
2022053664 |
| ISBN |
9781439921722 |
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1439921725 |
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