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The metropolitan revolution : the rise of post-urban America

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Since the end of World War II, the once-bustling, racially and economically integrated downtown areas of America's largest cities have largely disappeared.

An amorphous sprawl has taken their place, one dominated by freeways, corporate parks, and well-regulated, homogeneous malls and shopping centers.

Teaford argues that as the central city has become peripheral to the lives of most Americans, the dominance of metropolitan life has given way to a new era of post-suburban "edge cities." Surveying a variety of changes in metropolitan areas from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, Teaford examines the decline of the central city as the hub of work, shopping, transportation, and entertainment.

He analyzes the effects of urban flight in the 1950s and 1960s, the growth of the suburbs, and the financial crises and racial tensions that plagued many American cities.

More recently, metropolitan areas have refashioned themselves as tourist destinations and enclaves for young urban professionals and the poor.

Teaford shows how the new wave of immigration from Latin America and Asia has further altered metropolitan life and complicated the black-white divide that once characterized American cities.

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Columbia University Press
0231133731 / 9780231133739
Paperback / softback
16/05/2006
United States
English
352 p.
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