How states shaped postwar America : state government and urban power / Nicholas Dagen Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.

Rockefeller, Nelson A.

Urban policy--New York (State)--History--20th century.

Urban policy.

Urban renewal--New York (State)--History--20th century.

Urban renewal.

Urban policy--United States--History--20th century.

Urban renewal--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Summary:

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action—How States Shaped Postwar America uncovers the scope of this largely untold story.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

The Urban Challenge

1 Planning for Prosperity

2 Nelson Rockefeller: America’s Urbanist Governor

Urban Planning and Redevelopment

3 State Urban Redevelopment Policy

4 State Capital Office Complexes and Cities

5 The Challenge of Regional Planning

Transportation

6 White- Collar Rail: Mass Transit and Urban Prosperity

7 State Government and the Metropolitan Highway Network

Higher Education

8 The Metropolitan State University System

9 Unheralded Anchors: Center- City State Universities

Metropolitan Housing

10 Housing Finance Agencies Rethink Subsidized Housing

11 The Sad Tale of Decentralized Subsidized Housing

12 States and the Limits of Fair Housing Laws

13 The Urban Consequences of Deinstitutionalization

The Environment

14 Cities of Sludge: The Urban Water Crisis

15 Parks for City People

16 Regional Recreational Planning

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226498454

022649845X

OCLC:

1089833438