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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

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Description for Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City Paperback. Mapping Decline, illustrated with more than 75 full-color maps, traces the ways private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, federal housing policies, and urban renewal encouraged "white flight" and urban decline in St. Louis, Missouri. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 304 pages, 78 color illus. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 735.

Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form."

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Politics & Culture in Modern America
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812220940
SKU
V9780812220940
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About Colin Gordon
Colin Gordon is Professor of History at The University of Iowa and author of Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth- Century America and New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935.

Reviews for Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
"Colin Gordon combines intellectual rigor, a compelling argument, and extensive archival research with the latest geographic information system digital mapping techniques. Dozens of color maps, together with numerous figures and tables, allow the reader to examine the data with fresh eyes. Gordon's focus on a single city, a single neighborhood (Greater Ville), and even a single house (4635 North Market ... Read more

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