Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth

URBAN AMERICA......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Notes......Page 23
Part I. Urban America in 1950......Page 26
The American Economy in 1950......Page 28
Principles of Business Location in 1950......Page 30
New York......Page 33
Chicago......Page 36
Philadelphia and Detroit......Page 39
Boston and Pittsburgh......Page 42
St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore......Page 43
Five More Urban Areas......Page 44
Indianapolis and Columbus......Page 45
Housing and Housing Programs......Page 46
Conclusion......Page 52
Notes......Page 53
The South......Page 54
The West......Page 61
Conclusion......Page 66
Notes......Page 67
3. An American Dilemma in 1950......Page 68
The American Dilemma......Page 69
Black Americans in Urban Areas of the Northeast: 1950......Page 76
Black Americans in the Urban Areas of the South and West: 1950......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 86
Notes......Page 87
Part II. Urban Growth and Prosperity: 1950–1970......Page 88
4. The Industrial Northeast and the Great Migration......Page 90
Growth in the Northeastern Urban Areas......Page 92
Statistical Patterns of Urban Growth......Page 95
Summary......Page 100
Major Urban Areas of the South: 1950–1970......Page 101
Urban Areas of the West......Page 104
Statistical Analysis of Urban Growth in the Sunbelt......Page 107
Suburban Population Growth in the Northeast......Page 110
Suburban Population Growth in the Sunbelt......Page 113
Causes of Suburbanization......Page 115
Employment Location Patterns......Page 118
Highways and Automobiles......Page 127
Summary......Page 129
Housing Segregation in the Northeast......Page 130
Housing Segregation in the Sunbelt......Page 134
Black Population Growth and Segregation in Chicago......Page 136
Housing Prices and Home Ownership......Page 142
Employment Discrimination......Page 145
Employment of Blacks in the Northeast......Page 146
Black Employment in the Sunbelt......Page 149
Statistical Analysis of Labor Force Participation......Page 152
Public Housing and Urban Renewal......Page 153
Summary......Page 158
New York City, 1964......Page 159
Watts......Page 162
Part III. The Years of Urban Crisis......Page 166
The Great Society......Page 168
The Urban Riots......Page 173
Martin Luther King, Jr., in Chicago......Page 178
Note......Page 179
10. Urban Employment Trends in the Northeast......Page 180
New York......Page 181
Chicago......Page 186
Philadelphia and Detroit......Page 189
Boston and Pittsburgh......Page 194
St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore......Page 196
Five More Urban Areas......Page 200
Indianapolis and Columbus......Page 203
Urban Crisis in the Northeast: Manufacturing Matters......Page 205
Whose Urban Crisis Was Worst?......Page 207
11. Urban Growth in the Sunbelt:1970–1990......Page 210
The Urban Areas of the South......Page 211
Texas......Page 212
The Deep South......Page 214
Other Major Urban Areas of the West......Page 222
The Sunbelt Metropolitan Areas: A Statistical Summary for 1970–1990......Page 225
Note......Page 229
Urban Economics and the Urban Crisis......Page 230
Urban Sociology and the Urban Crisis......Page 237
Urban Economists, Urban Sociologists, and the Urban Crisis......Page 245
13. The Vicious Circle in Urban America......Page 246
The Vicious Circle......Page 247
The Central Cities of the Northeast......Page 248
An Index of Central City Urban Crisis......Page 257
The Central Cities of the Sunbelt......Page 261
The Urban Crisis of the Central Cities: 1970 to 1990......Page 268
Part IV. The Rebirth of Urban America After 1990......Page 270
Urban Rebirth: A Catalog of Causes......Page 272
Global Cities: Something New?......Page 278
America’s Global Cities: New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago......Page 282
Summary......Page 290
15. Urban Rebirth in the Northeast:1990–2000......Page 291
The Metropolitan Areas and Their Central Cities......Page 294
Urban Rebirth in New York?......Page 301
Chicago......Page 304
Philadelphia and Detroit......Page 306
Boston and Pittsburgh......Page 308
St. Louis, Cleveland, and Buffalo......Page 310
The Other Northeastern Metropolitan Areas......Page 312
Statistical Analysis of Urban Crisis Variables......Page 314
Urban Rebirth in Central Cities: A Quick Summary......Page 315
Conclusion......Page 317
Note......Page 318
16. Urban Growth and Rebirth in the Sunbelt......Page 319
Southern Urban Areas in the 1990s......Page 320
Los Angeles......Page 325
Other Western Metropolitan Areas......Page 327
Conclusion......Page 329
Note......Page 330
Recession and Recovery......Page 331
Metropolitan Areas of the Northeast......Page 333
Major Urban Areas of the Sunbelt......Page 338
Urban Rebirth: A Sampling of Opinion......Page 343
Whither Urban America?......Page 345
Bibliography......Page 348
Index......Page 354
About the Author......Page 402