Title & Author:

The rise of the Sunbelt cities / edited by David C. Perry and Alfred J. Watkins.

Publication:

Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1977]
©1977

Description:

309 pages : illustrations (chiefly tables) ; 23 cm

Series:

Urban affairs annual reviews ; v. 14

Notes:
Includes chapter notes and bibliographical references at chapter ends.
Introduction / David C. Perry and Alfred J. Watkins -- Part I. Three theories of American urban development ; Regional change and the impact of uneven urban development / Alfred J. Watkins and David C. Perry -- Class struggle and the stages of American urban development / David M. Gordon -- Regional change in the fifth Kondratieff upswing / Walt W. Rostow -- Part II. The political economy of Sunbelt cities ; To make a city : entrepreneurship on the Sunbelt frontier / William D. Angel, Jr. -- The selling of the Sunbelt : civic boosterism in the media / Gene Burd -- Sunbelt boosterism : the politics of postwar growth and annexation in San Antonio / Arnold Fleischmann -- The poverty of public services in the land of plenty : an analysis and interpretation / Peter A. Lupsha and William J. Siembieda -- Economic growth and inequality, demographic change, and the public sector response / Robert E. Firestine -- Multinational corporations, international finance, and the Sunbelt / Robert B. Cohen -- Part III. Visions of the urban future ; Refilling the metropolitan doughnut / Gurney Breckenfeld -- Toward a vision of the urban future / Murray Bookchin -- People, profit, and the rise of the Sunbelt cities / David C. Perry and Alfred J. Watkins.
Also issued online.

Summary:

This book is consciously organized to critically address and refine a series of the fundamental disciplinary elements comprising American urban studies. The goals of the contributors have been larger than simply shedding more analytic light on the issues surrounding the present state of regional tension in the United States. We have all attempted to supply new empirical insights within new boundaries of historical and theoretical definitions of urbanism in America. As such, this volume hopefully represents not only some measure of advancement of our knowledge about urban development but also a useful contribution to the intellectual expansion of the discipline of urban studies. The extent to which these highly ambitious goals have been achieved is directly attributable to the eight month process of interaction between the editors and the authors. Every contributor spent untold numbers of hours with the editors in a supreme effort to make this project work.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0803910290
9780803910294
0803910304 (pbk.)
9780803910300 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Sunbelt States.
Cities and towns United States.
City planning United States.
Villes États-Unis.
Urbanisme États-Unis.
Villes États du Sun Belt (États-Unis)
City planning
Cities and towns
Stadt
Stadtgeografie
Aufsatzsammlung
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Regionaal economisch beleid.
Cidade (Sociologia)
United States
United States Sunbelt States
USA Südstaaten
USA Südweststaaten
USA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Instructional and educational works.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.

Added entries:

Perry, David C., editor.
Watkins, Alfred J., editor.
Urban affairs annual reviews ; v. 14.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263786
Call No.: BIB 195081
Status: Available