City : urbanism and its end / Douglas W. Rae.

Title
  1. City : urbanism and its end / Douglas W. Rae.
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  1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
  2. ©2003
Author
  1. Rae, Douglas W.

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Description
  1. xix, 516 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? In the grand lineage of Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone and Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early "urbanist" decades of the twentieth century. Rae's subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities." "Starting with a vivid sketch of the guests attending a party in August 1919, City: Urbanism and Its End presents a portrait of New Haven in 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 (1954-70), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending." "Strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Small-scale retailing, neighborhood clubs, informal enforcement of sidewalk civility, and new urbanist design may be the keys to the future. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
  2. "How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? In the grand lineage of Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone and Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early "urbanist" decades of the twentieth century. Rae's subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities." "Starting with a vivid sketch of the guests attending a party in August 1919, City: Urbanism and Its End presents a portrait of New Haven in 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 (1954-70), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending." "Strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Small-scale retailing, neighborhood clubs, informal enforcement of sidewalk civility, and new urbanist design may be the keys to the future. 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."--Jacket.
Series statement
  1. The Yale ISPS series
Uniform title
  1. Yale ISPS series.
Subject
  1. 1900-1999
  2. City and town life > New Haven > History > 20th century
  3. City and town life
  4. Connecticut > New Haven
  5. Economic history
  6. Geschichte
  7. Industrialisation > Histoire > New Haven > 20e siècle
  8. Industrialisierung
  9. Industrialization > History > New Haven > 20th century
  10. Industrialization > Social aspects
  11. New Haven (Conn.)
  12. New Haven (Conn.) > Administration > 20e siècle
  13. New Haven (Conn.) > Conditions économiques > 20e siècle
  14. New Haven (Conn.) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle
  15. New Haven (Conn.) > Economic conditions > 20th century
  16. New Haven (Conn.) > Politics and government > 20th century
  17. New Haven (Conn.) > Social conditions > 20th century
  18. New Haven, Conn
  19. Politics and government
  20. Rénovation urbaine > New Haven > Histoire > 20e siècle
  21. Social conditions
  22. Stadscultuur
  23. Stadtentwicklung
  24. Stadtleben
  25. Stadtsanierung
  26. Urban renewal > New Haven > History > 20th century
  27. Urban renewal
  28. Urbanität
  29. Vie urbaine > New Haven > Histoire > 20e siècle
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Chapter 1. Creative Destruction and the Age of Urbanism --- Part I. Urbanism. Chapter 2. Industrial Convergence on a New England Town -- Chapter 3. Fabric of Enterprise -- Chapter 4. Living Local -- Chapter 5. Civic Density -- Chapter 6. A Sidewalk Republic --- Part II. End of Urbanism. Chapter 7. Business and Civic Erosion -- Chapter 8. Race, Place, and the Emergence of Spatial Hierarchy -- Chapter 9. Inventing Dick Lee -- Chapter 10. Extraordinary Politics: Dick Lee, Urban Renewal, and the End of Urbanism -- Chapter 11. The End of Urbanism -- Chapter 12. A City After Urbanism.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-497) and index.