Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of Us Cities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415932370)

[FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on how commentators crafted a discourse of urban decline and prosperity peculiar to the post-World War II era. The efforts of these commentators spoke to the foundational ambivalence Americans have toward their cities and, in turn, shaped the choices Americans made as they created and negotiated the country's changing urban landscape. [FOR GEOG/URBAN CATALOGS]Freely crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book uses the words of those who witnessed the cities' distress to portray the postwar discourse on urban decline in the United States. Up-dated and substantially re-written in stronger historical terms, this new edition explores how public debates about the fate of cities drew from and contributed to the choices made by households, investors, and governments as they created and negotiated America's changing urban landscape.

Author: Robert a. Beauregard
ISBN-10: 0415932378
ISBN-13: 9780415932370
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2002
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.06w x 0.89d