Books about Urbanism (Study Guide) - Managing Urban America, the Origins of the Urban Crisis, Creative City, the Power Broker (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Managing Urban America, the Origins of the Urban Crisis, Creative City, the Power Broker, Blueprint for Disaster: the Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing, the Country and the City, the Death and Life of Great American Cities, Roman Construction Sites, the City in History, City of Quartz, the Geography of Nowhere, the Voluntary City, We the Invisible, Design of Cities, Livable Streets, the Rise of the Creative Class. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Origins of the Urban Crisis is book by Thomas J. Sugrue. Once America's "great arsenal of democracy," Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's dilemma of racial and economic inequality, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. Weaving together the history of the workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies, Sugrue finds the roots of today's urban poverty in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II. Sugrue discusses the ongoing legacies of the postwar transformation of urban America and engages recent scholars who have joined in the reassessment of postwar urban, political, social, and African American history. -1940s- Detroit home to the highest-paid blue-collar workers in the U.S. -The excesses of Black Power and the rise of affirmative action fueled white suburbanization and justified a newfound white backlash against the urban poor. (pg 4) -Federal highway construction a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=20656698