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Back to the city [electronic resource] : issues in neighborhood renovation / edited by Shirley Bradway Laska, Daphne Spain.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ScienceDirect)
Other Authors: Laska, Shirley Bradway, 1944-, Spain, Daphne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Pergamon Press, ©1980.
Series:Pergamon policy studies on urban affairs.
Subjects:
Architecture, Domestic > Conservation and restoration > Social aspects > United States.
Urban renewal > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
Architecture, Domestic > Conservation and restoration > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Urban renewal.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. National evidence and theoretical perspectives
  • Private-market housing renovation in central cities : an Urban Land Institute survey / J. Thomas Black
  • The rediscovery of city neighborhoods : reinvestment by long-time residents and newcomers / Phillip L. Clay
  • Indicators of urban revitalization : racial and socioeconomic changes in central-city housing / Daphne Spain
  • Evidence of central-city revival / S. Gregory Lipton
  • Back to the countryside and back to the city in the same decade / Larry H. Long
  • Gentrification as urban reinvasion : some preliminary definitional and theoretical considerations / Bruce London
  • Part II. Case studies : a close-up view
  • Neighborhood resettlement : Washington, D.C. / Dennis E. Gale
  • Anticipating renovators' demands : New Orleans / Shirley Bradway Laska and Daphne Spain
  • The hidden dimensions of culture and class : Philadelphia / Paul R. Levy and Roman A. Cybriwsky
  • A case of too many actors: Columbus / Richard Fusch
  • Historic preservation as a force in urban change : Charleston / Robert E. Tournier
  • Inner-city revitalization as a challenge to diversity? : Seattle / David C. Hodge
  • Social displacement in a renovating neighborhood's commercial district : Atlanta / Michael Chernoff
  • The neighborhood's role in optimizing reinvestment : Philadelphia / Conrad Weiler
  • Part III: Discourses toward responsible policy and action
  • Continuities of urban policy on the poor : from urban renewal to reinvestment / Norma Nager
  • Urban displacement : a reconnaissance / George Grier and Eunice Grier
  • Federal antidisplacement policy in a context of urban decline / Howard J. Sumka
  • Neighborhood change, displacement, and city policy / Lawrence O. Houstoun, Jr. and Feather O'Connor
  • Neighborhoods in a race with time : local strategies for countering displacement / Paul R. Levy.

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