Research Catalog

Title

City-building in America / Anthony M. Orum.

Author

Orum, Anthony M.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.

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Description

xiv, 261 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Why do some cities expand, while others decline? Why is Milwaukee a town of the past, while Minneapolis-St. Paul seems reborn, infused with future dynamism? What do these cities have to tell us about other cities' prospects? Interspersing social theory, historical ethnography, and comparative analysis, Orum tells the story of these cities and, at the same time, of all cities.
• He traces the shift in the sources of urban growth from entrepreneurs to institutions, highlighting the emergence of local government as a prominent force in shaping the complex trajectory of the urban industrial heartland. Lucidly portrayed are the factory openings, labor strikes, elections, evictions, urban blight, white flight, recession, and rejuvenation that shape American cities.
• With a rich variety of sources including newspapers, diaries, census material, maps, photo essays, and original oral histories, this book is ideal for students of urban and industrial sociology, urban politics, social change, and social mobility.

Subject

• Cities and towns > United States > Growth
• Urban policy > United States
• Milwaukee (Wis.) > Economic conditions
• Milwaukee (Wis.) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Building, Unbuilding, and Rebuilding American Cities -- 2. Themes and Perspectives on the American City -- 3. Pre-Industrial Milwaukee: 1818-1870 -- 4. Early Industrial Milwaukee: 1870-1900 -- 5. Mature Industrial Milwaukee: 1900-1930 -- 6. Reshaping Industrial Milwaukee: 1930-1950 -- 7. The Decline of Industrial Milwaukee: 1950-1990 -- 8. An Analytic Summary of Milwaukee -- 9. The Rise and Fall of Industrial Cleveland -- 10. The Rise of a Post-Industrial City: Austin, Texas -- 11. The Rebirth of Minneapolis-St. Paul: Creating a Post-Industrial City in the Midwest -- 12. Building Cities in America.

ISBN

• 0813308437 (pbk.)
• 0813308429

LCCN

94038969

OCLC

• 31609747
• ocm31609747

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries