Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America),Used

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America),Used

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Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boardedup storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. 'Not a typical city,' as one observer noted in the late 1970s, 'but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form.'Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the 'white flight' of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacyand often sheer follyof a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this

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