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More About This Title Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present, Second Edition
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Since the appearance of Urban America in the Modern Age in 1987, the study of American cities has flourished. In this long-awaited second edition, Carl Abbott draws on the recent works of historians who have explored issues of urban growth, municipal politics, immigration and ethnicity, “suburbanization,” and environmental change. The fascination with growth and change in the nation’s metropolitan areas spans a wide range of scholarly fields, and the new edition also benefits from scholarship in disciplines closely related to urban history, including geography, political science, sociology, and urban planning.
Featuring an entirely new chapter covering the years since 1980 and a bank of interesting photographs, the second edition of Urban America in the Modern Age further explores and fine-tunes the themes and topics central to its predecessor—the physical form of metropolitan areas, their sources of growth and mix of ethnic and racial groups, the shaping of and responses to public policy, and ideas of community planning.
Regionally balanced—with examples from New York, Boston, and Chicago, as well as Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, San Antonio, Miami, Charlotte, Washington, Detroit, and Cleveland—the second edition of Urban America in the Modern Age makes ideal supplementary reading for courses in Urban History, twentieth-century America, as well as the second half of the U.S. survey.
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Carl Abbott is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. His most recent books are Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American Westand Greater Portland: UrbanLife and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. Among earlier books, both The Metropolitan Frontier: Citiesin the Modern American West and Political Terrain: Washington, D.C. from Tidewater Town in GlobalMetropolis have won national awards. His research interests center on the history of city planning and the relationships between urban growth and regional change.
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Foreword V
Preface IX
INTRODUCTION: The Metropolitan Era 1
CHAPTER ONE: The First Modern Cities 9
Core and Periphery 10
The Climax of Immigration 16
The Transition of Reform 22
Making the African American Ghettos 27
Model T Suburbs 36
Urban Survival in the Great Depression 44
City Problems and Possibilities 51
CHAPTER TWO; Building and Rebuilding 53
Cities at War 55
The Landscape of Prosperity 60
Neighborhood Change and the Northward Movement 67
The Politics of Growth 74
Federal Housing and Federal Highways 80
Metropolitan Governments 86
Evaluating the Great Cities 90
CHAPTER THREE: A New Urban America 93
Discovering the Sunbelt 96
New Americans 101
The Exploded Metropolis 105
The Urban Crisis 110
The Decline of Policy 117
The Vitality of the Everyday City 125
CHAPTER FOUR: Prosperity and Poverty 134
The Age of Real Estate 135
Entrepreneurial Cities 145
International Cities 154
Back in the ‘Hood: Poverty and Place 160
Planning Compact Cities 168
POSTSCRIPT: The Promise of Urban Life 180
Bibliographical Essay 187
Index 211
Photographs follow page 133
Maps, Tables Diagrams
TABLE 1.1 Urbanization of the United States in the Twentieth Century 3
TABLE 1.2 Metropolitan Population 1920—2000 4
TABLE 1.3 Suburban Population 1920—2000 6
MAP: Metropolitan Districts in 1930 13
TABLE 1.1 Origins of European-Born Population of Twenty-five Large Cities, 1920 19
MAP: San Francisco: Origin of Out-of-Town War Workers 57
MAP: Racial Violence in Chicago, 1756—57 72
MAP: Revitalizing Neighborhoods in Major Cities 127
TABLE 4.1 Greatest Populations Giants & Losses, 1990—2000: Metropolitan Statistical Areas 137
Diagram: Old and New Neighborhood Patterns 143
Diagram : The Central City as Disneyland 151
TABLE 4.2 Global Network Connectedness of U.S. Cities 157
MAP: Ten Megalopolitan Areas and Their Interstate Highways 178
TABLE P.1 Populations of Twelve Largest Metropolitan Areas, 1920 and 2000 181
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Praise for the first edition:
"Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern US history, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of fine detail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a truly national cross-section of cities, are the most impressive features of the book." (Design Book Review, Spring 1988)
"Urban America in the Modern Age is an extraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; while directed toward the college classroom, it would make excellent reading for nonstudents as well." (Indiana Magazine of History, September 1988)
