Title The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 15, Urbanization / Wanda Rushing, volume editor

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010] ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) : illustrations, map Series The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Ser New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Ser Contents General Introduction -- Introduction -- GROWTH AND DIVERSITY IN THE URBAN SOUTH -- Banking -- Black Middle Class -- Boosterism -- Central Florida, Disneyfication of -- City Planning -- Commercial Civic Elite -- Crime and Delinquency -- Crunk and Hip-Hop Culture -- Deindustrialization -- Education -- Environmental Justice -- Expressways and Central Cities -- Farmers Markets -- Gangs -- Gentrification -- Globalization -- Growth -- Health Conditions -- Historic Preservation -- Homelessness -- Immigration -- Leadership -- Maternal and Child Health -- Medical Centers -- Megachurches New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina -- New Urbanism -- Politics -- Population Change and Demographics -- Poverty, Child -- Poverty, Concentration of -- Redevelopment -- Segregation, Desegregation, Resegregation -- Segregation, Residential -- Sports Stadia and Arenas -- Suburbanization -- Sunbelt Cities -- Transportation, Mass Transit -- Underclass -- Waterfront Development -- White Flight -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Atlanta Olympics, 1996 -- Austin, Texas -- Birmingham, Alabama -- Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida -- Charleston, South Carolina -- Charlotte, North Carolina -- Chattanooga, Tennessee Church of God in Christ and Annual Convocation -- CNN (Cable News Network) -- Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia -- Dallas, Texas -- Dollywood -- Houston, Texas -- Little Rock, Arkansas -- Little Rock Nine -- Louisville, Kentucky -- Mardi Gras -- Memphis, Tennessee -- Miami, Florida -- Mobile, Alabama -- Montgomery, Alabama -- Nashville, Tennessee -- Natchez, Mississippi -- New Orleans, Louisiana -- Orlando, Florida -- Piedmont Urban Crescent -- Richmond, Virginia -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital -- Savannah, Georgia -- Spartanburg, South Carolina -- Tampa, Florida -- Index of Contributors A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Summary This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective. Looking beyond the post-World War II era and the emergence of the Sunbelt economy to examine recent and contemporary developments, the 48 thematic essays consider the ongoing remarkable growth of southern urban centers, new immigration patterns Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Urbanization -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias Cities and towns -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias Popular culture -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. Cities and towns Manners and customs Popular culture Social conditions Urbanization SUBJECT Southern States -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias Subject Southern States Genre/Form encyclopedias. Encyclopedias Encyclopedias. Encyclopédies. Form Electronic book Author Rushing, Wanda. University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture. ISBN 9780807898307 0807898309 9781469604299 1469604299

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