Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States / Thomas J. Sugrue, Domenic Vitiello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sugrue, Thomas J.

Vitiello, Domenic.

Series:

City in the twenty-first century book series.

The City in the Twenty-First Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan areas--United States.

Metropolitan areas.

Emigration and immigration.

City planning--United States.

City planning.

Sustainable urban development--United States.

Sustainable urban development.

City planning--Environmental aspects--United States.

Urban renewal--United States.

Urban renewal.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In less than a generation, the dominant image of American cities has transformed from one of crisis to revitalization. Poverty, violence, and distressed schools still make headlines, but central cities and older suburbs are attracting new residents and substantial capital investment. In most accounts, native-born empty nesters, their twenty something children, and other educated professionals are credited as the agents of change. Yet in the past decade, policy makers and scholars across the United States have come to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan revitalization at least as much and belong at the center of the story. Immigrants have repopulated central city neighborhoods and older suburbs, reopening shuttered storefronts and boosting housing and labor markets, in every region of the United States. --amazon.com.

After decades of urban crisis, American cities and suburbs have revived, thanks largely to immigration. This is the first book to explore the phenomenon, from big cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, to newer destinations such as Nashville and suburban Boston and New Jersey.

Contents:

Introduction: Immigration and the new American metropolis / Domenic Vitiello and Thomas J. Sugrue

Part I. Immigration and urban transformations. Immigration and the new social transformation of the American city / Robert J. Sampson ; Estimating the impact of immigration on county-level economic indicators / Jacob L. Vigdor ; Immigrants, housing demand, and the economic cycle / Gary Painter

Part II. Revitalizing diverse destinations. Revitalizing the suburbs: immigrants in greater Boston since the 1980s / Marilynn S. Johnson ; Immigrant cities as reservations for low-wage labor / Michael B. Katz and Kenneth Ginsburg

Part III. The politics of immigration and revitalization. Old maps and new neighbors: the spacial politics of immigrant settlement / Jamie Winders ; Transforming transit-orienteddevelopment projects via immigrant-led revitalization: the MacArthur Park case / Gerardo Francisco Sandoval

Part IV. Urban revitalization in transnational context. Migrantes, barrios, and infraestructura: transnational processes of urban revitalization in Chicago / A.K. Sandoval-Strausz ; Liberian reconstruction, transnational development, and Pan-African community revitalization / Domenic Vitiello and Rachel Van Tosh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed June 01., 2017)

ISBN:

9780812293951

0812293959

OCLC:

1013940887