After the Factory

Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities
Herausgeber: Connolly, James J.

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Produktbeschreibung

After the Factory expores the challenges and opportunities facing the smaller industrial cities of America's heartland as they seek to reinvent themselves. It offers a unique, multidisciplinary look at communities often ignored by conventional urban studies and urban history scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Comparative Urban Studies
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9780739148235
• ISBN-10: 0739148230
• Artikelnr.: 31304749

Autorenporträt

Edited by James J. Connolly - Contributions by Janet R. Daly Bednarek; Allen Dieterich-Ward; Alison D. Goebel; Michael J. Hicks; Thomas E. Lehman; S Paul O'Hara; Catherine Tumber and LaDale Winling

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Can They Do It? The Capacity of Small Rust-Belt Cities to
Reinvent Themselves in a Global Economy Chapter 2 Model Cities, Mill Towns,
and Industrial Peripheries: Small Industrial Cities in Twentieth-Century
America Chapter 3 From Satellite City to Burb of the 'Burgh:
DeIndustrialization and community Identity in Steubenvill, Ohio Chapter 4
Creating an "Image Center": Reimagining Omaha's Downtown and Riverfront,
1986-2003 Chapter 5 The Gravity of Capital: Spatial and Economic
Transformation in Muncie, Indiana, 1917-1940 Chapter 6 Curing the
Rustbelt?: Neoliberal Health Care, Class, and Race in Mansfield, Ohio
Chapter 7 Do Economic Growth Models Explain Midwest City Growth
Differences? Chapter 8 Explaining Household Income Patterns in Rural
Midewestern Counties: The Importance of Being Urban Chapter 9 Small, Green,
and Good: The Role of Neglected Cities in a Sustainable Future