To The Golden Cities
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Jon C. Teaford: Rough Road to Renaissance, BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND, August 1990 ISBN: 0801841348
After prospering in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, America's great urban centers faced economic, demographic, and political decline during the depression of the 1930s. When the Second World War brought economic recovery, politicians and planners of the 1940s confidently anticipated a new golden age for big cities. But the postwar boom never came, and urban America has been waiting for the renaissance ever since. InThe Rough Road to Renaissance, Jon C. Teaford describes efforts in twelve older central cities in the Northeast and Midwest to achieve revitalization during the period from 1940 to 1985. Focusing on the view from City Hall rather than on state or federal perspectives, Teaford explores the changing trends in city politics and municipal finance as well as the policies that pursued the elusive goal of urban renaissance. He also considers the environmental, transportation, rehabilitation, and reconstruction programs undertaken to create better cities and to close the widening competitive gap with suburbia. In the early fifties, Teaford explains, big cities were planning for a bright future. Crosstown highways, low-income highrises, and vigorous demolition drastically altered the urban landscape and confidently anticipated new development. But the automobile culture was already derailing urban renewal as city dwellers sought the good life in the suburbs. By the late sixties, rising crime, racial tension, labor militancy, and a wave of abandonment seemed to offer further evidence of impending urban demise. Yet in the 1980s, messiah mayors and visionary planners boosted the hopes and morale of urban residents. Once again there was talk of renaissance, but beneath the facade of revival serious problems persisted. In The Rough Road to Renaissance, Jon Teaford tells a story that residents of Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, St. Louis, and other famous urban centers will recognize-- a story that is still being written.
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Tariq Ali: Night of the Golden Butterfly, VERSO, April 2010 ISBN: 1844676110
Part of the "Islam Quintet" series, this novel deals with the Muslim experience in China. It moves between the cities of the twenty-first century, from Lahore to London, from Paris to Beijing.
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Matthew Richard Poole: Frommer's California Frommer's Complete, FROMMER'S, 129 ISBN: 0470487232
Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. * Explore the bounty of the Golden State-from its cosmopolitan cities to its ancient redwood forests, beaches, deserts, lakes, and mountains. * Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
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Charles FitzRoy: Renaissance Florence on Five Florins a Day, THAMES & HUDSON, April 2010 ISBN: 0500251622
Offers the practical advice you need for a journey back to the golden age of one of Europe's great cultural cities. This book is suitable for travellers, museum-goers and those who wonder what it would really have been like to visit this model of Renaissance culture.
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