Camden After the Fall

Camden After the Fall
Author :
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 341
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780812205275
ISBN-13 : 0812205278
Rating : 4/5 (278 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Camden After the Fall by : Howard Gillette, Jr.

Download or read book Camden After the Fall written by Howard Gillette, Jr. and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What 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.


Camden After the Fall Related Books

Camden After the Fall
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Howard Gillette, Jr.
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-03 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What prevents cities whose economies have been devastated by the flight of human and monetary capital from returning to self-sufficiency? Looking at the cumulat
Toward Camden
Language: en
Pages: 82
Authors: Mercy Romero
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-30 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in Ne
Everything All at Once
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Steven Camden
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-10 - Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An achingly beautiful collection of poems about one week in a secondary school where everything happens all at once. Zooming in across our cast of characters, w
Camden After the Fall
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Howard Gillette
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-09 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What prevents cities whose economies have been devastated by the flight of human and monetary capital from returning to self-sufficiency? Looking at the cumulat
It’s About Love
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Steven Camden
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-04 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Real life is messier than the movies. A bold, thought-provoking novel from the exceptionally talented, Steven Camden.