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Confronting urban legacy : rediscovering Hartford and New England's forgotten cities / edited by Xiangming Chen and Nick Bacon.
Van Pelt Library HT123.5.N45 C66 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urbanization--New England.
- Urbanization.
- Urban policy--New England.
- Urban policy.
- Regional planning--New England.
- Regional planning.
- Economic conditions.
- Hartford (Conn.)--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Hartford (Conn.).
- New England--Economic conditions--21st century.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Once Prosperous and Now Challenged: Hartford's Transformation in Comparative and Global Perspectives / Nick Bacon Bacon, Nick, Xiangming Chen Chen, Xiangming 1
- Part I Urban Past and Present in New England
- 2 Hartford: A Global History / Andrew Walsh Walsh, Andrew 21
- 3 Podunk after Pratt: Place and Placelessness in East Hartford, Connecticut / Nick Bacon Bacon, Nick 46
- 4 "If We Would ... Leave the City, This Would Be a Ghost Town": Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 / Llana Barber Barber, Llana 65
- Part II Social and Community Transformations
- 5 Poverty, Inequality, Politics, and Social Activism in Hartford / Louise Simmons Simmons, Louise 85
- 6 Investigating Spatial Inequality with the Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project / Jack Dougherty Dougherty, Jack 110
- 7 The Puerto Rican Effect on Hispanic Residential Segregation: A Study of the Hartford and Springfield Metro Areas in National Perspective / Michael Paul Sacks Sacks, Michael Paul 127
- 8 A Metro Immigrant Gateway: Refugees in the Hartford Borderlands / Janet Bauer Bauer, Janet 145
- 9 Re-Imagining Portland, Maine: Urban Renaissance and a Refugee Community / Ezra Moser Moser, Ezra 169
- Part III Renewing Hartford: Global and Regional Dynamics
- 10 Shifting Fortunes: Hartford's Global and Regional Economic Dimensions / Xiangming Chen Chen, Xiangming, John Shemo Shemo, John 193
- 11 A Tragic Dialectic: Politics and the Transformation of Hartford / Clyde McKee McKee, Clyde, Nick Bacon Bacon, Nick 219
- 12 Metropolitan Hartford: Regional Challenges and Responses / Jason Rojas Rojas, Jason, Lyle Wray Wray, Lyle 236
- 13 A Sobering Era with New Possibilities / Tom Condon Condon, Tom 259
- 14 Conclusion: Inheritance, Inertia, and Inspirations: The Potential Remaking of Hartford / Xiangming Chen Chen, Xiangming, Nick Bacon Bacon, Nick 276.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739149423
- 0739149423
- OCLC:
- 842111808
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