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The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand
how the definition of what constitutes a city in the U.S. and who
lives and works in them has changed markedly since 1945. The story
of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and
rebirth. Nor is it a straightforward account of the struggle
between the old urban core or central business district and the
suburbs on the urban periphery, for both have had their economic
ups and downs. In the decades that followed World War II, the
cityscape was altered to better accommodate the automobile and the
city gradually transformed from a place of production to a place of
consumption. During the 1980s, city neighborhoods once occupied by
migrants from the American South and immigrants from Southern and
Eastern Europe began to house newcomers from Asia, Africa, and
Central and South America. The economic, environmental, and social
issues now facing America cities from Portland, Maine to Portland,
Oregon, will require them to continue the process of remaking or
reinventing themselves.
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