Main entry:

Gordon, Colin, 1962-

Title & Author:

Mapping decline : St. Louis and the fate of the American city / Colin Gordon.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Description:

xiv, 284 pages : color illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Series:

Politics and culture in modern America

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our house : the twentieth century at 4635 North Market Street -- Local politics, local power : governing greater St. Louis, 1940-2000 -- "The steel ring" : race and realty in greater St. Louis -- Patchwork metropolis : municipal zoning in greater St. Louis -- Fighting blight : urban renewal policies and programs, 1945-2000 -- City of blight : the limits of urban renewal in greater St. Louis -- Conclusion: Our house revisited : the twenty-first century at 4635 North Market Street.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Accompanying website with interactive maps

ISBN:

9780812220940
0812220943
9780812240702 (alk. paper)
0812240707 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Inner cities Missouri Saint Louis History 20th century.
Urban renewal Missouri Saint Louis.
Slums Missouri Saint Louis.
African Americans Missouri Saint Louis Social conditions 20th century.
Poor Missouri Saint Louis Social conditions 20th century.
Rénovation urbaine Missouri Saint Louis.
Noirs américains Missouri Saint Louis Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Pauvres Missouri Saint Louis Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
African Americans Social conditions
Inner cities
Poor Social conditions
Slums
Social conditions
Urban renewal
Armut
Kommunalpolitik
Soziale Situation
Stadtentwicklung
Saint Louis (Mo.) Social conditions 20th century.
Missouri Saint Louis
Saint Louis, Mo.
Saint Louis <Mo.>

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Politics and culture in modern America.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272356
Call No.: BIB 205654
Notes: hd. bd.
Status: Available