City : urbanism and its end / Douglas W. Rae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rae, Douglas W.

Series:

Yale ISPS series.

The Yale ISPS series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Connecticut--New Haven--History--20th century.

City and town life.

Industrialization--Social aspects--Connecticut--New Haven--History--20th century.

Industrialization.

Urban renewal--Connecticut--New Haven--History--20th century.

Urban renewal.

New Haven (Conn.)--Politics and government--20th century.

New Haven (Conn.).

New Haven (Conn.)--Economic conditions--20th century.

New Haven (Conn.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelists eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early urbanist decades of the twentieth century. Raes subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities.City: Urbanism and Its End begins with a richly textured portrait of New Haven in the early twentieth century, a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its end of urbanism first during the Depression, and then very aggressively during the mayoral reign of Richard C. Lee (195470), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending. But government spending has repeatedly failed to restore urban vitality. Rae argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. Creative Destruction and the Age of Urbanism

Part I: Urbanism

2. Industrial Convergence on a New England Town

3. Fabric of Enterprise

4. Living Local

5. Civic Density

6. A Sidewalk Republic

Part II: End of Urbanism

7. Business and Civic Erosion, 1917-1950

8. Race, Place, and the Emergence of Spatial Hierarchy

9. Inventing Dick Lee

10. Extraordinary Politics: Dick Lee, Urban Renewal, and the End of Urbanism

11. The End of Urbanism

12. A City After Urbanism

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-497) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-73446-2

9786611734466

0-300-13475-4

OCLC:

923590870