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 | #1755535 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2008-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .88 x7.37 x10.24l,2.07 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| The sad story of a once-great city in decline|By Lamont Dakota|This book, though well-written and quite interesting, is as difficult and disturbing to read as your best friend's obituary, if, like me, you grew up in Saint Louis during the '40's and '50's, that city's last two decades of greatness - "First in booze, first in shoes, last in the American League" - before its dec| ||"Colin Gordon combines intellectual rigor, a compelling argument, and extensive archival research with the latest geographic information system digital mapping techniques. Dozens of color maps, together with numerous figures and tables, allow the reader to ex

Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form."<...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America)   |  Colin Gordon. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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