Ever-Changing American City (eBook)

1945-Present

John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, Kristin M. Szylvian (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
416 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-0183-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and rebirth. Nor is it a straightforward account of the struggle between the central business district and the suburbs on the urban periphery. In the decades that followed World War II, the cityscape was altered to better accommodate the automobile transforming the city from a place of production to a place of consumption. During the 1980s, city neighborhoods once occupied by migrants from the American South and immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe began to house newcomers from Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. The economic, environmental, and social issues now facing American cities from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, will require the continual reinvention of the American city.

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The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and rebirth. Nor is it a straightforward account of the struggle between the old urban core or central business district and the suburbs on the urban periphery, for both have had their economic ups and downs. In the decades after World War II, the cityscape was altered to better accommodate the automobile, and the city gradually transformed from a place of production to a place of consumption. During the 1980s, city neighborhoods once occupied by migrants from the American South and immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe began to house newcomers from Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. The economic, environmental, and social issues now facing American cities from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, will require them to continue the process of remaking or reinventing themselves.

Autor

John F. Bauman is visiting professor of community planning and development at the Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, and professor emeritus of history at California University of Pennsylvania. Roger Biles is professor of history at Illinois State University. Kristin M. Szylvian is associate professor of history at St. John's University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 The Electronic CityChapter 2 Shaping the Postwar City: 1945–1960Chapter 3 Federal Policy and the American CityChapter 4 The Tarnished Face of the American CityChapter 5 The American City in the Age of Limits: 1968–1990Chapter 6 The City and the Image Made Real? The 1990s and 2000sConclusionSuggestions for Urban History Research, Writing, and Public History Projects

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.11.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-0183-5 / 1442201835
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0183-5 / 9781442201835