The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality / Edition 2

by Jon C. Teaford, Stanley I. Kutler

Overview

The second edition of this highly acclaimed book brings the story of urban America upto date through the early 1990s, with an analysis of recent attempts to revive aging central cities and a look at a new form of development known as technoburbs or edge cities.

Johns Hopkins University Press

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801845512
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	02/01/1993
Series:	The American Moment
Edition description:	second edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Jon C. Teaford is professor emeritus of history at Purdue University. He is the author of Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940–1985, The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America, and The American Suburb: The Basics.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Problem, Promise, and Reality 1

2 The Century Begins, 1900-1919 7

The Downtown 8

The Neighborhoods 18

Righting the Urban Wrongs 31

3 Promises Thwarted: The Twenties 45

The Failure of Moral Reform 45

The Failure of Political Reform 49

The Imperfect Mosaic 57

Automobiles and the Promise of Suburbia 63

4 An Interlude in Urban Development, 1930-1945 76

The Depression 77

The Federal Response 84

The Wartime City 93

5 Suburbia Triumphant, 1945-1964 99

Suburban Boom 100

Central-City Bust 111

Reviving the Central City 120

6 An Age of "Urban Crisis," 1964-1979 130

Rebellion and Crime 131

Washington's Response to Urban Crisis 139

The Fiscal Crisis 145

The New Ethnic Politics 150

7 Toward a Mew Metropolis, 1980 and Beyond 154

Renaissance or Bust 154

The New Ethnic Mosaic 163

The Post-suburban Metropolis 169

8 The Turn-of-the-Century City 177

Revival amid the Ruins 177

Stopping Sprawl 191

Bibliographical Essay 199

Index 219

Editorial Reviews

The book has much to recommend it as a supplementary textbook for a number of urban and historical geography courses.

Progress in Human Geography - Peter O. Muller

This book has value for all students of modern urban America. Do I plan to use it for my own urban history course? Yes, most definitely.

Indiana Magazine of History - Edward K. Spann

A lively, thoughtful, and well-written book that should prove to be exciting for the undergraduate student and useful also for the well-read scholar.

History - Joseph L. Arnold

Teaford has written an exceptionally useful book for undergraduate teaching. His discussion of American cities in the twentieth century is built around clear interpretive themes that students should quickly recognize and to which they can reasonably be asked to respond... This is a book well designed for undergraduate use.

History Teacher - Terry A. Cooney

Teaford has written an exceptionally useful book for undergraduate teaching. His discussion of American cities in the twentieth century is built around clear interpretive themes that students should quickly recognize and to which they can reasonably be asked to respond . . . This is a book well designed for undergraduate use.
—History Teacher

A lively, thoughtful, and well-written book that should prove to be exciting for the undergraduate student and useful also for the well-read scholar.
—History

This book has value for all students of modern urban America. Do I plan to use it for my own urban history course? Yes, most definitely.
—Indiana Magazine of History

The book has much to recommend it as a supplementary textbook for a number of urban and historical geography courses.
—Progress in Human Geography

From the Publisher

This book has value for all students of modern urban America. Do I plan to use it for my own urban history course? Yes, most definitely.

Indiana Magazine of History

A lively, thoughtful, and well-written book that should prove to be exciting for the undergraduate student and useful also for the well-read scholar.

History

The book has much to recommend it as a supplementary textbook for a number of urban and historical geography courses.

Progress in Human Geography

Teaford has written an exceptionally useful book for undergraduate teaching. His discussion of American cities in the twentieth century is built around clear interpretive themes that students should quickly recognize and to which they can reasonably be asked to respond . . . This is a book well designed for undergraduate use.

History Teacher