In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners.
In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Xiangming Chen is founding dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Paul Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as visiting professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He is author of As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim. Nick Bacon is research associate in urban studies at the Center for Urban and Global Studies and a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue Chapter 1: Introduction: Once Prosperous and Now Challenged: Hartford's Transformation in Comparative and Global Perspectives Part 1: Urban Past and Present in New England Chapter 2: Hartford: A Global History Chapter 3: Podunk after Pratt: Place and Placelessness in East Hartford, Connecticut Chapter 4: "If We Would...Leave the City, This Would Be a Ghost Town": Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 Part II: Social and Community Transformations Chapter 5: Poverty, Inequality, Politics, and Social Activism in Hartford Chapter 6: Investigating Spatial Inequality with the Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project Chapter 7: The Puerto Rican Effect on Hispanic Residential Segregation: Hartford and Springfield Metropolitan Areas in National Perspective Chapter 8: A Metro Immigrant Gateway: Refugees in the Hartford Borderlands Chapter 9: Re-Imagining Portland, Maine: Urban Renaissance and a Refugee Community Part III: Renewing Hartford: Global and Regional Dynamics Chapter 10: Shifting Fortunes: Hartford's Global and Regional Economic Dimensions Chapter 11: A Tragic Dialectic: Politics and the Transformation of Hartford Chapter 12: Metropolitan Hartford: Regional Challenges and Responses Chapter 13: A Sobering Era with New Possibilities Chapter 14: Conclusion: Inheritance, Inertia, and Inspirations: The Potential Remaking of Hartford
Prologue Chapter 1: Introduction: Once Prosperous and Now Challenged: Hartford's Transformation in Comparative and Global Perspectives Part 1: Urban Past and Present in New England Chapter 2: Hartford: A Global History Chapter 3: Podunk after Pratt: Place and Placelessness in East Hartford, Connecticut Chapter 4: "If We Would...Leave the City, This Would Be a Ghost Town": Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 Part II: Social and Community Transformations Chapter 5: Poverty, Inequality, Politics, and Social Activism in Hartford Chapter 6: Investigating Spatial Inequality with the Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project Chapter 7: The Puerto Rican Effect on Hispanic Residential Segregation: Hartford and Springfield Metropolitan Areas in National Perspective Chapter 8: A Metro Immigrant Gateway: Refugees in the Hartford Borderlands Chapter 9: Re-Imagining Portland, Maine: Urban Renaissance and a Refugee Community Part III: Renewing Hartford: Global and Regional Dynamics Chapter 10: Shifting Fortunes: Hartford's Global and Regional Economic Dimensions Chapter 11: A Tragic Dialectic: Politics and the Transformation of Hartford Chapter 12: Metropolitan Hartford: Regional Challenges and Responses Chapter 13: A Sobering Era with New Possibilities Chapter 14: Conclusion: Inheritance, Inertia, and Inspirations: The Potential Remaking of Hartford
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