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Informationen zum Autor JON C. TEAFORD is Professor of History at Purdue University. He is the author of a number of previous books on American urban history, including City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850?70 and The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940?85. Klappentext Soon, however, emerging Sunbelt cities began to rob such cities as Cincinnati, Saint Louis, and Chicago of their distinction as boom areas, foreshadowing urban crisis. Zusammenfassung Presents the history of the transformation of "America's heartland" into the "Rust Belt," chronicling the development of the cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East, from their heyday to the trying times of the 1970s and '80s. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Urban Heartland 1. Creating the Urban Network 2. The Emerging Center of Urban America 3. Skyscrapers, Symphonies, and Ballparks: The Changing Physical and Cultural Complexion of the City 4. Automobiles and Reform: The Midwest Lead the Nation 5. In the Cultural Vanguard 6. After the Heyday 7. The Making of the Rust Belt After Two Centuries Notes Index
