Main entry:

Miller, Zane L.

Title & Author:

Changing plans for America's inner cities : Cincinnati's Over-The-Rhine and twentieth-century urbanism / Zane L. Miller and Bruce Tucker.

Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©1998.

Description:

xxi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban life and urban landscape series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-215) and index.
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Cincinnati, Why Over the-Rhine? -- Prologue: 1850s-1910s (starting p. 1) -- Pt. 1 Zoning, Razing, or Rehabilitation -- Introduction: From Cultural Engineering to Cultural Individualism (starting p. 9) -- 1 Social Groups, Slums, and Comprehensive Planning, 1915-1944 (starting p. 13) -- 2 Neighborhoods and a Community, 1948-1960 (starting p. 29) -- Pt. 2 New Visions and Visionaries -- Introduction: Community Action and Neighborhood Planning (starting p. 43) -- 3 Participatory Planning and the Downtown Renaissance, 1954-1964 (starting p. 47) -- 4 Redefining the Problem, 1950-1966 (starting p. 59) -- 5 Collapse of the Appalachian Option, 1964-1974 (starting p. 72) -- 6 Empowering the Poor, 1971-1975 (starting p. 84) -- 7 Integration through Historic Preservation, 1972-1980 (starting p. 96) -- 8 The Separatist Counterattack, 1980-1982 (starting p. 111) -- 9 The National Register Controversy, 1982-1983 (starting p. 125) -- 10 Separatists Victorious, 1983-1985 (starting p. 138) -- Epilogue: Eclipsing the Public Interest (starting p. 157) -- Appendix The Major Housing Goal of the Over-the-Rhine Urban Renewal Plan, 1985 (starting p. 169) -- Notes (starting p. 171) -- Index (starting p. 217)

Summary:

"In the nineteenth century Cincinnati's historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood was a diverse suburb, but in the twentieth century it became on inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems. As Zane L. Miller and Bruce Tucker point out, however, Over-the-Rhine's history is also the history of planning for both inner-city neighborhoods and big-city downtowns. Beginning in the 1920s, Cincinnati's government and civic leaders explored the entire repertoire of programs considered or implemented in cities throughout the country for such close-in neighborhoods. The first attempts included schemes for comprehensive planning, zoning, slum clearance, redevelopment, and neighborhood rehabilitation."--BOOK JACKET. "Over-the-Rhine survived this first assault, but at mid-century a new understanding of the city generated different visions of Over-the-Rhine's future and bitter fights for control of that future. While factions fought, the neighborhood deteriorated, and by the 1990s it was one of the poorest and most violent parts of the city. The story ends with a double irony: the adoption of an Over-the-Rhine "urban renewal" plan that endorsed a ghettoish status quo; and the murder of Buddy Gray, the city's premier white community organizer, by a mentally troubled man whom Gray had rescued and befriended."--BOOK JACKET. "Miller and Tucker look beyond the fight over slums to illuminate other issues in American civilization. They focus on changing conceptions of culture, neighborhood, and community and lay out the consequences of those conceptions for city planning and plan implementation. Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of urban neighborhoods."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
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ISBN:

0814207626 (alk. paper)
9780814207628 (alk. paper)
0814207634 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780814207635 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urban renewal Ohio Cincinnati History.
Rénovation urbaine Ohio Cincinnati Histoire.
Urban renewal.
Stadsvernieuwing.
Stadskernen.
Lokale politiek.
Over-the-Rhine (Cincinnati, Ohio) History.
Ohio Cincinnati.
Ohio Cincinnati Over-the-Rhine.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Tucker, Edward Bruce, 1948-
Urban life and urban landscape series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 196344
Call No.: ID HT177.C53 M55 1998; ID:97-B3726
Status: Available