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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817788403321

Autore

Von Hoffman Alexander

Titolo

House by house, block by block : the rebirth of America's urban neighborhoods / / Alexander von Hoffman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-028686-5

0-19-773352-2

1-280-53159-2

0-19-803298-6

0-19-518479-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

307.3/416/0973

Soggetti

Urban renewal - United States

Community development, Urban - United States

Inner cities - United States

Urban policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published : 2003.

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The quest to save the inner city : a historical perspective -- Miracle on 174th Street -- Boston and the power of collaboration -- In the rust belt : can the ghetto be rebuilt? -- Olympic efforts in boomtown -- New immigrants transform the old city.

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of miraculous stories based on years of research and hundreds of interviews reveals the quiet revolution in American cities that is patching together the work of hundreds of organizations to revitalize the nation's "rust belt.".