Title City : urbanism and its end / Douglas W. Rae

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 516 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The Yale ISPS series Yale ISPS series Contents Contents -- Preface -- 1. Creative Destruction and the Age of Urbanism -- Part I: Urbanism -- 2. Industrial Convergence on a New England Town -- 3. Fabric of Enterprise -- 4. Living Local -- 5. Civic Density -- 6. A Sidewalk Republic -- Part II: End of Urbanism -- 7. Business and Civic Erosion, 1917-1950 -- 8. Race, Place, and the Emergence of Spatial Hierarchy -- 9. Inventing Dick Lee -- 10. Extraordinary Politics: Dick Lee, Urban Renewal, and the End of Urbanism -- 11. The End of Urbanism -- 12. A City After Urbanism -- Notes -- Bibliography Summary How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelists eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early urbanist decades of the twentieth century. Raes subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities. City: Urbanism and Its End begins with a richly textured portrait of New Haven in the early twentieth century, a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its end of urbanism first during the Depression, and then very aggressively during the mayoral reign of Richard C. Lee (195470), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending. But government spending has repeatedly failed to restore urban vitality. Rae argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-497) and index Notes Print version record Subject City and town life -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 20th century Industrialization -- Social aspects -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 20th century Urban renewal -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- State & Local. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. City and town life Economic history Industrialization -- Social aspects Politics and government Social conditions Urban renewal Industrialisierung Stadtleben Stadtsanierung Urbanität Stadtentwicklung Stadscultuur. SUBJECT New Haven (Conn.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century New Haven (Conn.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century New Haven (Conn.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Connecticut -- New Haven New Haven, Conn. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300134759 0300134754

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