The Decline (and Recovery?) of America's Rust Belt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Decline (and Recovery?) of America's Rust Belt write by Ariel D. Stern-Markovitz. This book was released on 2005. The Decline (and Recovery?) of America's Rust Belt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Manufacturing Decline
Manufacturing Decline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manufacturing Decline write by Jason Hackworth. This book was released on 2019-10. Manufacturing Decline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Manufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on--and perpetuated--Rust Belt cities' misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Jason Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause.
Voices from the Rust Belt
Voices from the Rust Belt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from the Rust Belt write by Anne Trubek. This book was released on 2018-04-03. Voices from the Rust Belt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”—Booklist The essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ventures, warm refuges for outsiders, and hidden oases of natural beauty. But mainly they are stories drawn from uniquely personal experiences: A girl has her bike stolen. A social worker in Pittsburgh makes calls on clients. A journalist from Buffalo moves away, and misses home.... A father gives his daughter a bath in the lead-contaminated water of Flint, Michigan" (from the introduction). Where is America's Rust Belt? It's not quite a geographic region but a linguistic one, first introduced as a concept in 1984 by Walter Mondale. In the modern vernacular, it's closely associated with the "Post-Industrial Midwest," and includes Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as parts of Illinois, Wisconsin, and New York. The region reflects the country's manufacturing center, which, over the past forty years, has been in decline. In the 2016 election, the Rust Belt's economic woes became a political talking point, and helped pave the way for a Donald Trump victory. But the region is neither monolithic nor easily understood. The truth is much more nuanced. Voices from the Rust Belt pulls together a distinct variety of voices from people who call the region home. Voices that emerge from familiar Rust Belt cities—Detroit, Cleveland, Flint, and Buffalo, among other places—and observe, with grace and sensitivity, the changing economic and cultural realities for generations of Americans.
The Road Through the Rust Belt
The Road Through the Rust Belt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Road Through the Rust Belt write by William M. Bowen. This book was released on 2014-05-14. The Road Through the Rust Belt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chapters in this book explore reasons for the decline of "Rust Belt" cities and the often innovative responses of local leaders and entrepreneurs that are helping to revive these areas.
Design After Decline
Design After Decline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design After Decline write by Brent D. Ryan. This book was released on 2012-05-22. Design After Decline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we will rebuild shrinking cities and what urban design vision will guide their future remain contentious and unknown. In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan reveals the fraught and intermittently successful efforts of architects, planners, and city officials to rebuild shrinking cities following mid-century urban renewal. With modern architecture in disrepute, federal funds scarce, and architects and planners disengaged, politicians and developers were left to pick up the pieces. In twin narratives, Ryan describes how America's two largest shrinking cities, Detroit and Philadelphia, faced the challenge of design after decline in dramatically different ways. While Detroit allowed developers to carve up the cityscape into suburban enclaves, Philadelphia brought back 1960s-style land condemnation for benevolent social purposes. Both Detroit and Philadelphia "succeeded" in rebuilding but at the cost of innovative urban design and planning. Ryan proposes that the unprecedented crisis facing these cities today requires a revival of the visionary thinking found in the best modernist urban design, tempered with the lessons gained from post-1960s community planning. Depicting the ideal shrinking city as a shifting patchwork of open and settled areas, Ryan concludes that accepting the inevitable decline and abandonment of some neighborhoods, while rebuilding others as new neighborhoods with innovative design and planning, can reignite modernism's spirit of optimism and shape a brighter future for shrinking cities and their residents.
