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Title Charlotte, NC : the global evolution of a new South city / edited by William Graves and Heather A. Smith
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction: from mill town to financial capital : Charlotte's global evolution / Heather A. Smith and William Graves -- A place to come to / David Goldfield -- Searching for respect : from "new South" to "world class" at the crossroads of the Carolinas / Matthew D. Lassiter -- Red dust and dynamometers : Charlotte as memory and knowledge community in NASCAR / Ronald L. Mitchelson and Derek H. Alderman -- Blending Southern culture and international finance : the construction of a global money center / William Graves and Jonathon Kozar -- Beyond local markets : the export performance and challenges of Charlotte manufacturers / Ronald V. Kalafsky -- A place for old mills in a new economy : textile mill reuse in Charlotte / Tyrel G. Moore and Gerald L. Ingalls -- Banking on the neighborhood : corporate citizenship and revitalization in uptown Charlotte / Heather A. Smith and Emily Thomas Livingstone -- Developing a typology of African American neighborhoods in the American South : the case of Charlotte / Gerald L. Ingalls and Isaac Heard, Jr. -- Development and the politics of school desegregation and resegregation / Stephen Samuel Smith -- Centers and edges : the confusion of urban and suburban paradigms in Charlotte-Mecklenburg's development patterns / David Walters -- Salad-bowl suburbs : a history of Charlotte's East Side and South Boulevard immigrant corridors / Tom Hanchett -- Mi reina : Latino landscapes in the Queen City (Charlotte, N.C.) / José L.S. Gámez -- Epilogue: Charlotte at the globalizing crossroads / Owen J. Furuseth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Social change -- North Carolina -- Charlotte
Urbanization -- North Carolina -- Charlotte
Globalization -- Social aspects -- North Carolina -- Charlotte
City and town life -- North Carolina -- Charlotte
Cities and towns -- Growth -- Case studies
Social change -- Southern States -- Case studies
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- Growth -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Cities and towns -- Growth
City and town life
Economic history
Globalization -- Social aspects
Social change
Social conditions
Urbanization
SUBJECT Charlotte (N.C.) -- Economic conditions
Charlotte (N.C.) -- Social conditions
Subject North Carolina -- Charlotte
Southern States
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Graves, William, 1967-
Smith, Heather A
LC no. 2009051210
ISBN 9780820343938
0820343935
Other Titles Charlotte, N.C
Charlotte, North Carolina