Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia
Thomas J. Vicino
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Description for Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia
Hardback. Num Pages: 227 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs - the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once the bastion of a large middle class, have matured and experienced three decades of social and economic decline. In the first comprehensive analysis of suburban decline for an entire region, Vicino uses Baltimore as an illustrative case to chronicle how first-tier suburbs experienced widespread decline while outer suburbs flourished since the 1970s. At the brink of the twenty-first century, Vicino illustrates how the processes of deindustrialization, racial diversity, ... Read more
Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs - the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once the bastion of a large middle class, have matured and experienced three decades of social and economic decline. In the first comprehensive analysis of suburban decline for an entire region, Vicino uses Baltimore as an illustrative case to chronicle how first-tier suburbs experienced widespread decline while outer suburbs flourished since the 1970s. At the brink of the twenty-first century, Vicino illustrates how the processes of deindustrialization, racial diversity, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230605459
SKU
V9780230605459
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About Thomas J. Vicino
Thomas J. Vicino is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University in Boston, where he is also affiliated with the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Vicino specializes in the political economy of cities and suburbs, focusing on issues of economic development, housing, and demographics. His ... Read more
Reviews for Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia
"This is the most sophisticated study yet of first-tier suburban decline. Scholars and policymakers have only begun to catch up to the fact that the urban crisis has moved to the suburbs.Vicino gets it.His book will be indispensable for anyone who wants to understand the rapidly changing suburban landscape. Vicino shatters the conventional image of suburbia: Leave It to Beaver ... Read more