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A Good Place to Do Business - The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945 (Paperback)
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A Good Place to Do Business - The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945 (Paperback)
Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
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The "Pittsburgh Renaissance," an urban renewal effort launched in
the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city's downtown.
Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods
cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large
corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh's
Renaissance's apparent success quickly became a model for several
struggling industrial cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland,
Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia. In A Good Place to Do Business,
Roger Biles and Mark Rose chronicle these urban "makeovers" which
promised increased tourism and fashionable shopping as well as the
development of sports stadiums, convention centers, downtown parks,
and more. They examine the politics of these government-funded
redevelopment programs and show how city politics (and
policymakers) often dictated the level of success. As city
officials and business elites determined to reorganize their
downtowns, a deeply racialized politics sacrificed neighborhoods
and the livelihoods of those pushed out. Yet, as A Good Place to Do
Business demonstrates, more often than not, costly efforts to bring
about the hoped-for improvements failed to revitalize those cities,
or even their downtowns.
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