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Title Confronting urban legacy : rediscovering Hartford and New England's forgotten cities / edited by Xiangming Chen and Nick Bacon
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Contents Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1. Introduction: Once Prosperousand Now Challenged: Hartford's Transformation in Comparative and Global Perspectives; Chapter 2. Hartford: A Global History; Chapter 3. Podunk after Pratt: Place and Placelessness in East Hartford, Connecticut; Chapter 4. "If We Would ... Leave the City, This Would Be a Ghost Town": Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000; Chapter 5. Poverty, Inequality, Politics, and Social Activism in Hartford
Chapter 6. Investigating Spatial Inequality with the Cities, Suburbs, and Schools ProjectChapter 7. The Puerto Rican Effect on Hispanic Residential Segregation: A Study of the Hartford and Springfield Metro Areas in National Perspective; Chapter 8. A Metro Immigrant Gateway: Refugees in the Hartford Borderlands; Chapter 9. Re-imagining Portland, Maine: Urban Renaissance and a Refugee Community; Chapter 10. Shifting Fortunes: Hartford's Global and Regional Economic Dimensions; Chapter 11. A Tragic Dialectic: Politics and the Transformation of Hartford
Chapter 12. Metropolitan Hartford: Regional Challenges and ResponsesChapter 13. A Sobering Era with New Possibilities; Chapter 14. Conclusion: Inheritance, Inertia, and Inspirations: The Potential Remaking of Hartford; Index; About the Editors and Contributors
Summary In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. Focusing on the dynamic urban/global legacy of Hartford, Connecticut, the volume is bolstered by comparative chapters on Portland, Maine, Lawrence, Massachusetts and Springfield, Massachusetts. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Urbanization -- New England
Urban policy -- New England
Regional planning -- New England
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Economic history
Regional planning
Urban policy
Urbanization
Hartford (Conn.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
New England -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Connecticut -- Hartford
New England
Form Electronic book
Author Chen, Xiangming, 1955-
Bacon, Nick, 1988-
LC no. 2019715865
ISBN 9780739149447
073914944X