Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the rise of government-aided and built housing during the Great Depression, the impact of post-World War II renewal policies, and the retreat from public housing in the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan years.
Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfo...
Examines a half-century epoch when planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning and its application for improving life in Pittsburgh. Defines Pittsburgh's key role in the national urban planning movement.
Examines a half-century epoch when planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning and its applicati...
In late 1933 and early 1934, Harry Hopkins, director of the infant Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), dispatched an elite corps of journalists and authors, including Bruce McClure and Lorena Hickok, to obtain a grass-roots portrait of Depression-wracked America. His marching orders to Hickok were to go out around the country and look this thing over.... Tell me what you see and hear.... All of it. She and her compatriots spent two years in different regions of the country, talking with preachers, teachers, civic leaders, businessmen, and the small fry John Citizen, monitoring the...
In late 1933 and early 1934, Harry Hopkins, director of the infant Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), dispatched an elite corps of journa...
Situated on a peninsula jutting into picturesque Casco Bay, Portland has long been admired for its geographical setting -- the "beautiful city by the sea," as native son Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called it. At the same time, Portland's deep, ice-free port has made it an ideal site for the development of coastal commerce and industry. Much of the city's history, John F. Bauman shows, has been defined by the effort to reconcile the competing interests generated by these attributes -- to balance the imperatives of economic growth with a desire to preserve Portland's natural beauty.
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Situated on a peninsula jutting into picturesque Casco Bay, Portland has long been admired for its geographical setting -- the "beautiful city by t...
The Ever Changing American City seeks to help readers understand how the definition of what constitutes a city in the U.S. has changed markedly since 1945. 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...
The Ever Changing American City seeks to help readers understand how the definition of what constitutes a city in the U.S. has changed markedly since ...
