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The changing American neighborhood : the meaning of place in the twenty-first century / Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mallach, Alan, author.
- Swanstrom, Todd, author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neighborhoods--Social aspects--United States.
- Neighborhoods.
- Neighborhoods--Economic aspects--United States.
- City and town life--United States.
- City and town life.
- Urban economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- 'The Changing American Neighborhood' argues that the physical and social spaces created by neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being of 21st-century Americans and their communities. Taking a long historical view, this book explores the many dimensions of today's neighborhoods, the forms they take, the forces and factors influencing them, and the people and organizations trying to change them.
- Contents:
- Why good neighborhoods?
- Understanding neighborhood change: a dynamic systems approach
- The rise of the American urban neighborhood, 1860-1950
- The American urban neighborhood under siege, 1950-2000
- The great divergence: the polarization of the American neighborhood, 1990-2020
- Neighborhoods as markets
- Neighborhoods in an era of demographic change and
- Economic restructuring
- Race and its continuing yet changing significance
- Agents of change: city governments, community development corporations, anchor institutions, and others
- Deconstructing gentrification
- Can the center hold? The crisis of the urban middle neighborhood
- Stuck in place: the persistence of concentrated poverty and disinvestment
- Neighborhood change in the suburbs
- Conclusion: the theory and practice of neighborhood change.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 15, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781501770906
- 150177090X
- 9781501770913
- 1501770918
- OCLC:
- 1371776664
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