LEADER 04829nam 22007575 450 001 9910814633503321 005 20240418021826.0 010 $a1-283-21230-7 010 $a9786613212306 010 $a0-8122-0527-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205275 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051177 035 $a(OCoLC)759158205 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491943 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000543208 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925992 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543208 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520201 035 $a(PQKB)10142035 035 $a(DE-B1597)449304 035 $a(OCoLC)979580923 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205275 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441486 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051177 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCamden After the Fall $eDecline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City /$fHoward Gillette, Jr 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2011] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1968-6 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART I. Shifting Fortunes -- $tChapter 1. A City That Worked -- $tChapter 2. Camden Transformed -- $tPART II. Shifting Power -- $tChapter 3. To Save Our City -- $tChapter 4. From City to County: The Rise of the Suburban Power Structure -- $tPART III. Shifting Strategy -- $tChapter 5. The Downtown Waterfront: Changing Camden's Image -- $tChapter 6. The Neighborhoods: Not by Faith Alone -- $tChapter 7. The Courts: Seeking Justice and Fairness -- $tPART IV. Shifting Prospects -- $tChapter 8. The Politics of Recovery -- $tChapter 9. Future Camden: Reinventing the City, Engaging the Region -- $tConclusion -- $tNote on Sources -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhat prevents cities whose economies have been devastated by the flight of human and monetary capital from returning to self-sufficiency? Looking at the cumulative effects of urban decline in the classic post-industrial city of Camden, New Jersey, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., probes the interaction of politics, economic restructuring, and racial bias to evaluate contemporary efforts at revitalization. In a sweeping analysis, Gillette identifies a number of related factors to explain this phenomenon, including the corrosive effects of concentrated poverty, environmental injustice, and a political bias that favors suburban amenity over urban reconstruction.Challenging popular perceptions that poor people are responsible for the untenable living conditions in which they find themselves, Gillette reveals how the effects of political decisions made over the past half century have combined with structural inequities to sustain and prolong a city's impoverishment. Even the most admirable efforts to rebuild neighborhoods through community development and the reinvention of downtowns as tourist destinations are inadequate solutions, Gillette argues. He maintains that only a concerted regional planning response-in which a city and suburbs cooperate-is capable of achieving true revitalization. Though such a response is mandated in Camden as part of an unprecedented state intervention, its success is still not assured, given the legacy of outside antagonism to the city and its residents.Deeply researched and forcefully argued, Camden After the Fall chronicles the history of the post-industrial American city and points toward a sustained urban revitalization strategy for the twenty-first century. 606 $aHISTORY$2bisac 606 $aUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)$2bisac 606 $aUrban renewal$xHistory$zCamden$zNew Jersey 606 $aRegions & Countries - Americas$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aUnited States Local History$2HILCC 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aBooks of Regional Interest. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aUrban Studies. 615 7$aHISTORY 615 7$aUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) 615 0$aUrban renewal$xHistory 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Americas 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aUnited States Local History 676 $a974.9/87 700 $aGillette$b Jr., Howard, $01643402 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814633503321 996 $aCamden After the Fall$93988630 997 $aUNINA