The Boston renaissance: Race, space, and economic change in an American metropolis
Boston, mutation urbaine, économie, démographie, emploi, industry, industrie, travail, société urbaine, ségrégation urbaine, race, inégalité, inequality, espace urbain, métropole, Bluestone Barry, Stevenson Mary Huff
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This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries.<br />
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Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization.</div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
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Preface</div>
1. Greater Boston in transition</div>
2. The demographic revolution: From white ethnocentric to multicultural Boston</div>
3. The industrial revolution: From mill-based to mind-based industries</div>
4. The spatial revolution: From hub to metropolis</div>
5. Who we are: How families fare in Greater Boston today</div>
6. Michael Massagli - What do Boston-area residents think of one another?</div>
7. Michael Massagli - Residential preferences and segregation</div>
8. The labor market: How workers with limited schooling are faring in Greater Boston</div>
9. The impact of human, social, and cultural capital on job slots and wages</div>
10. Philip Moss and Chris Tilly - What do Boston area employers seek in their workers?</div>
11. Sharing the fruits of Greater Boston's renaissance</div>
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<b>Barry Bluestone </b>is the Russell B. and Andrée B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.</div>
<b>Mary Huff Stevenson </b>is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Senior Fellow at its McCormack Institute of Public Affairs.</div>
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Barry Bluestone
Mary Huff Stevenson
Russell Sage Foundation
2000
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Effluent America : Cities, industry, energy, and the environment
, environnement urbain, écologie urbaine, déchets, industry, industrie, energy, energie, pollution, politique urbaine, Melosi Martin, croissance urbaine
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Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective. </div>
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<b>Martin Melosi </b>is Distinguished University Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston.</div>
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Martin Melosi
University of Pittsburgh Press
2000
344
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