Colin Gordon, "Mapping decline : St. Louis and the fate of the American city" : New books in history
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Colin Gordon, "Mapping decline : St. Louis and the fate of the American city" : New books in history
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St Louis, États-Unis, United States, ville en déclin, histoire urbaine, décroissance, centre-ville, SIG, race, Gordon Colin, Poe Marshall
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Abstract from the distributor :
This week we have Professor Colin Gordon of the University of Iowa on the show talking about his new book Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). Professor Gordon is the author of two previous monographs, Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2004) and New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (Cambridge University Press, 1994). Mapping Decline breaks new ground not only in our understanding of the decay of the American inner-city, but also in its use of quantitative data in combination with GIS mapping technologies. The book is full of beautiful maps that paint a vivid, if somewhat depressing, picture of American urban history. Philip J. Ethington of the University of Southern California calls Mapping Decline “a searing indictment of policymakers, realtors, and mortgage lenders for deliberate decisions that sacrificed their own city of St. Louis on the altar of race.” That it is.
Marshall Poe is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Iowa.
Colin Gordon is a Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Iowa.
