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The first book to look at provide a comprehensive look at revival and inequality America’s older industrial cities
New analysis and insights on the role of race, education, jobs, and housing on the growing opportunity gap in industrial cities
Relevant policy recommendations for any city facing the growing challenge of economic and racial disparity
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In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach shows us what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He draws from his decades of experience working in America’s cities, and pulls in insightful research and data, to spotlight these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social, and political context. Mallach explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change.
The Divided City offers strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity. Mallach makes a compelling case that these strategies must be local in addition to being concrete and focusing on people’s needs—education, jobs, housing and quality of life. Change, he argues, will come city by city, not through national plans or utopian schemes.
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, grounded picture of the transformation of America’s older industrial cities. It is neither a dystopian narrative nor a one-sided "the cities are back" story, but a balanced picture rooted in the nitty-gritty reality of these cities. The Divided City is imperative for anyone who cares about cities and who wants to understand how to make today’s urban revival work for everyone.
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Book Title: The Divided City
Book Subtitle: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America
Authors: Alan Mallach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-782-7
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Alan Mallach 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-782-7Published: 31 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 326
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Community & Population Ecology