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Informationen zum Autor Xiangming Chen is Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College, as well as a distinguished guest professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Klappentext In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners. Zusammenfassung In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities! this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains contributions from sociologists! anthropologists! historians! political scientists! politicians! grassroots leaders! and urban/regional planners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Chapter 1: Introduction: Once Prosperous and Now Challenged: Hartford's Transformation in Comparative and Global Perspectives Part 1: Urban Past and Present in New England Chapter 2: Hartford: A Global History Chapter 3: Podunk after Pratt: Place and Placelessness in East Hartford, Connecticut Chapter 4: "If We Would.Leave the City, This Would Be a Ghost Town": Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 Part II: Social and Community Transformations Chapter 5: Poverty, Inequality, Politics, and Social Activism in Hartford Chapter 6: Investigating Spatial Inequality with the Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project Chapter 7: The Puerto Rican Effect on Hispanic Residential Segregation: Hartford and Springfield Metropolitan Areas in National Perspective Chapter 8: A Metro Immigrant Gateway: Refugees in the Hartford Borderlands Chapter 9: Re-Imagining Portland, Maine: Urban Renaissance and a Refugee Community Part III: Renewing Hartford: Global and Regional Dynamics ...
