Renewing Birmingham - Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979

Informationen zum Autor CHRISTOPHER MacGREGOR SCRIBNER is an independent scholar in Birmingham, Alabama. Klappentext The first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham's transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power, influence, and justice in the city and advanced the civil rights agenda. Zusammenfassung The first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham’s transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power, influence, and justice in the city and advanced the civil rights agenda.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christopher Scribner, Christopher MacGregor Scribner
• Editore: The University of Georgia Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2002
• EAN: 9780820323282
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2328-2
• Pagine: 184
• Serie: Economy and Society in the Mod; Economy & Society in the Modern South; Economy and Society in the Mod
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; Soziologie, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - General History