After the Factory - Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities

Informationen zum Autor James J. Connolly is professor of history and director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University. Klappentext After the Factory expores the challenges and opportunities facing the smaller industrial cities of America's heartland as they seek to reinvent themselves. It offers a unique, multidisciplinary look at communities often ignored by conventional urban studies and urban history scholarship. Zusammenfassung After the Factory expores the challenges and opportunities facing the smaller industrial cities of America's heartland as they seek to reinvent themselves. It offers a unique! multidisciplinary look at communities often ignored by conventional urban studies and urban history scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Can They Do It? The Capacity of Small Rust-Belt Cities to Reinvent Themselves in a Global Economy Chapter 2 Model Cities, Mill Towns, and Industrial Peripheries: Small Industrial Cities in Twentieth-Century America Chapter 3 From Satellite City to Burb of the 'Burgh: DeIndustrialization and community Identity in Steubenvill, Ohio Chapter 4 Creating an "Image Center": Reimagining Omaha's Downtown and Riverfront, 1986-2003 Chapter 5 The Gravity of Capital: Spatial and Economic Transformation in Muncie, Indiana, 1917-1940 Chapter 6 Curing the Rustbelt?: Neoliberal Health Care, Class, and Race in Mansfield, Ohio Chapter 7 Do Economic Growth Models Explain Midwest City Growth Differences? Chapter 8 Explaining Household Income Patterns in Rural Midewestern Counties: The Importance of Being Urban Chapter 9 Small, Green, and Good: The Role of Neglected Cities in a Sustainable Future

Product details

• Authors: James J. Connolly, James J. (EDT)/ Daly Bednarek Connolly
• Assisted by: James J. Connolly (Editor), Connolly James J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9780739148242
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4824-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Comparative Urban Studies; Comparative Urban Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, United States of America, USA, Urban communities, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history