Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

(Part of the Politics and Culture in Modern America Series)

by Colin Gordon

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Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812220943

ISBN13:9780812220940

Release Date:October 2009

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Related Subjects

City Planning & Urban Development History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Government Rural Social Science Social Sciences Urban

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