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Small Cities USA - Growth, Diversity, and Inequality (Hardcover)
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Small Cities USA - Growth, Diversity, and Inequality (Hardcover)
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While journalists document the decline of small-town America and
scholars describe the ascent of such global cities as New York and
Los Angeles, the fates of little cities remain a mystery. What
about places like Providence, Rhode Island; Green Bay, Wisconsin;
Laredo, Texas; and Salinas, California-the smaller cities that
constitute much of America's urban ladscape? Jon R. Norman examines
how such places have fared in the wake of the large-scale economic,
demographic, and social changes that occurred in the latter part of
the twentieth century. Small Cities U.S.A. illustrates how smaller
cities changed over the last third of the century, exploring how a
large group of these cities have experienced divergent fates of
growth and prosperity or stagnation and dilapidation. Drawing on an
assessment of eighty small cities between 1970 and 2000, Norman
considers the factors that have altered the physical, social, and
economic landscapes of such places. These cities are examined in
relation to new patterns of immigration, shifts in the global
economy, and changing residential preferences among Americans. In
doing so, he presents the first large-scale comparison of smaller
cities across time in the United States. This study shows that
small cities that have prospered over time have done so because of
diverse populations and economies. These "glocal" cities, as Normal
calls them, are doing well without necessarily growing into large
metropolises.
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