The many geographies of urban renewal : new perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949 / edited by Douglas R. Appler.
| Other author | Appler, Douglas R. editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2023. |
| Copyright Date | 2023 |
| Description | vi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "Examines the impact of urban renewal programs on small cities and other under-explored U.S. sites"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Many geographies of urban renewal Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023 9781439921722 |
| Genre/form | Case studies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022053663 |
| ISBN | 9781439921715 |
| ISBN | 9781439921708 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1439921709 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1439921717 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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