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The Divided City - Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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The Divided City - Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Who really benefits from urban revival? Cities, from trendy coastal
areas to the nation's heartland, are seeing levels of growth beyond
the wildest visions of only a few decades ago. But vast areas in
the same cities house thousands of people living in poverty who see
little or no new hope or opportunity. Even as cities revive, they
are becoming more unequal and more segregated. What does this mean
for these cities--and the people who live in them? In The Divided
City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach shows us what has
happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like
Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, and Baltimore, as they have
undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He draws from his
decades of experience working in America's cities, and pulls in
insightful research and data, to spotlight these changes while
placing them in their larger economic, social, and political
context. Mallach explores the pervasive significance of race in
American cities and looks closely at the successes and failures of
city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have
tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City offers
strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity. Mallach
makes a compelling case that these strategies must be local in
addition to being concrete and focusing on people's
needs--education, jobs, housing and quality of life. Change, he
argues, will come city by city, not through national plans or
utopian schemes. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive,
grounded picture of the transformation of America's older
industrial cities. It is neither a dystopian narrative nor a
one-sided "the cities are back" story, but a balanced picture
rooted in the nitty-gritty reality of these cities. The Divided
City is imperative for anyone who cares about cities and who wants
to understand how to make today's urban revival work for everyone.
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