Title Believing in Cleveland : managing decline in the "best location in the nation" / J. Mark Souther

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Urban life, landscape, and policy Contents Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Rewinding Clevelandâ#x80;#x99;s Mainspring: Downtown Renewal, Urban Image, and the Metropolitan Future -- 2. City on Schedule: Fighting Blight to Save Clevelandâ#x80;#x99;s Cultural Heart -- 3. Greater Cleveland Growthland: Industrial Flight and Boosterism in â#x80;#x9C;The Best Location in the Nationâ#x80;#x9D; -- 4. Believe in Cleveland: Carl B. Stokes and the Struggle to Redeem the City -- 5. â#x80;#x9C;Color, Pizzazz, Magnetism, Liftâ#x80;#x9D;: The Struggle to Enliven Downtown Cleveland in the 1970s 6. The â#x80;#x9C;Ohio City Renaissanceâ#x80;#x9D;: The Contested Comeback on Clevelandâ#x80;#x99;s Near West Side7. The Best Things in Life Are Here: Rebranding â#x80;#x9C;The Best Location in the Nationâ#x80;#x9D; -- Epilogue: Believeland -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography Summary Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America's "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic malaise. Believing in Cleveland chronicles how city leaders used imagery and rhetoric to combat and, at times, accommodate urban and economic decline. Souther explores Cleveland's downtown revitalization efforts, its neighborhood renewal and restoration projects, and its fight against deindustrialization. He shows how the city reshaped its image when it was bolstered by sports team victories. But Cleveland was not always on the upswing. Souther places the city's history in the postwar context when the city and metropolitan area were divided by uneven growth. In the 1970s, the city-suburb division was wider than ever. Believing in Cleveland recounts the long, difficult history of a city that entered the postwar period as America's sixth largest, then lost ground during a period of robust national growth. But rather than tell a tale of decline, Souther provides a fascinating story of resilience for what some folks called "The Best Location in the Nation." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland Economic development -- Ohio -- Cleveland Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development. Community development Economic development Economic history Social conditions Urban renewal SUBJECT Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions -- 21st century Subject Ohio -- Cleveland Form Electronic book LC no. 2017027075 ISBN 9781439913741 1439913749 1439913722 9781439913727 9781439913734 1439913730

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