Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth

Aims to change the way Americans think about their cities. This book provides an economic and social history of urban America, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. It draws on the concepts of the vicious circle and the virtuous circle to offer an explanation for the transition from urban crisis to urban rebirth.

Part I Urban America in 1950; Chapter 1 Urban Areas of the Northeast; Chapter 2 Urban Areas of the Sunbelt, Before Air Conditioning; Chapter 3 An American Dilemma in 1950; Part II Urban Growth and Prosperity: 1950-1970; Chapter 4 The Industrial Northeast and the Great Migration; Chapter 5 The New Sunbelt Takes Off; Chapter 6 Suburbanization: 1950-1970; Chapter 7 Signs of Trouble Ahead; Chapter 8 August 1965; Part 3 The Years of Urban Crisis; Chapter 9 The Great Society and the Urban Riots; Chapter 10 Urban Employment Trends in the Northeast; Chapter 11 Urban Growth in the Sunbelt: 1970-1990; Chapter 12 New Urban Scholarship; Chapter 13 The Vicious Circle in Urban America; Part 4 The Rebirth of Urban America After 1990; Chapter 14 Rebirth in America's Cities; Chapter 15 Urban Rebirth in the Northeast: 1990-2000; Chapter 16 Urban Growth and Rebirth in the Sunbelt; Chapter 17 Trends After 2000: What Is Next for Urban America?;