Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly...
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Author: Colin Gordon
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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City by Gordon, Colin

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

€70,21

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

€70,21
Author: Colin Gordon
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. Not a typical city, as one observer noted in the late 1970s, but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form.

Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the white flight of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy--and often sheer folly--of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history.

Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps--rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records--illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.

Author: Colin Gordon
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 10/09/2009
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780812220940

About the Author
Colin Gordon is Professor of History at The University of Iowa and author of Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth- Century America and New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935.

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