03368nam 2200637 a 450 991077780660332120230207224909.01-281-73446-297866117344660-300-13475-4(CKB)1000000000473628(StDuBDS)AH23049814(SSID)ssj0000122592(PQKBManifestationID)11142719(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122592(PQKBWorkID)10123907(PQKB)10020706(MiAaPQ)EBC3420220(Au-PeEL)EBL3420220(CaPaEBR)ebr10176366(CaONFJC)MIL173446(OCoLC)923590870(EXLCZ)99100000000047362820030429d2003 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrCity[electronic resource] urbanism and its end /Douglas W. RaeNew Haven Yale University Pressc20031 online resource (544 p.) The Yale ISPS seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-09577-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-497) and index.How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelists eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early urbanist decades of the twentieth century. Raes subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities.City: Urbanism and Its End begins with a richly textured portrait of New Haven in the early twentieth century, a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its end of urbanism first during the Depression, and then very aggressively during the mayoral reign of Richard C. Lee (195470), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending. But government spending has repeatedly failed to restore urban vitality. Rae argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work.Yale ISPS series.City and town lifeConnecticutNew HavenHistory20th centuryIndustrializationSocial aspectsConnecticutNew HavenHistory20th centuryUrban renewalConnecticutNew HavenHistory20th centuryNew Haven (Conn.)Politics and government20th centuryNew Haven (Conn.)Economic conditions20th centuryNew Haven (Conn.)Social conditions20th centuryCity and town lifeHistoryIndustrializationSocial aspectsHistoryUrban renewalHistory974.6/8043Rae Douglas W460543MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777806603321City2774194UNINA