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The metropolitan revolution : the rise of post-urban America / Jon C. Teaford.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Teaford, Jon C.
- Series:
- Columbia history of urban life
- The Columbia history of urban life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolitan areas--United States--History--20th century.
- Metropolitan areas.
- Cities and towns--United States--History--20th century.
- Cities and towns.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast and the Midwest were bustling, racially and economically integrated areas frequented by suburban and urban dwellers alike. Yet since 1945, these cities have become peripheral to the lives of most Americans. "Edge cities" are now the dominant centers of production and consumption in post-suburban America. Characterized by sprawling freeways, corporate parks, and homogeneous malls and shopping centers, edge cities have transformed the urban landscape of the United States.
- Teaford surveys metropolitan areas from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and the way in which postwar social, racial, and cultural shifts contributed to the decline of the central city as a hub of work, shopping, transportation, and entertainment. He analyzes the effects of urban flight in the 1950s and 1960s, the subsequent growth of the suburbs, and the impact of financial crises and racial tensions. He then brings the discussion into the present by showing how the recent wave of immigration from Latin America and Asia has further altered metropolitan life and complicated the black-white divide. Engaging in original research and interpretation, Teaford tells the story of a fascinating metamorphosis.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the metropolitan revolution
- 1945
- Reinforcing the status quo
- Coming apart
- The debacle
- The new metropolitan world
- Beyond the Black-White city
- After the revolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231133723
- 0231133731
- OCLC:
- 62421124
- Publisher Number:
- 9780231133722 (cloth)
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