Dublin Core
Titre
Changing plans for America's inner cities
Sujet
Cincinnati, Over-the-Rhine, bidonville, aménagement urbain, quartier défavorisé, quartier dégradé, centre-ville, voisinage, renouvellement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, politique de la ville, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, Miller Zane L., Tucker Bruce
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
Over-the-Rhine survived this first assault on the slums, but at mid-century a new understanding of the city generated different visions of Over-the-Rhine’s future and long and bitter fights for control of that future. While factions fought, the neighborhood deteriorated, and by the 1990s it was one of the poorest and most violent parts of the city. The story ends with a double irony: the adoption of an Over-the-Rhine “urban renewal” plan that endorsed a ghettoish status quo; and the murder of Buddy Gray, the city's premier white community organizer, by a mentally troubled man whom Gray had rescued from the streets and befriended.
Miller and Tucker look beyond the fight over slums to illuminate other issues in American civilization. They focus on changing concepts of culture, neighborhood, and community as dynamic factors, and basic components of city planning. Changing Plans for America’s Inner Cities is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of urban neighborhoods.
Zane L. Miller is a professor of American history and director of the Center for Neighborhood and Community Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
Bruce Tucker is an associate professor of history at the University of Windsor.