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Urban life, landscape, and policy
Urban life, landscape, and policy. ^A1191090
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Rewinding Cleveland's Mainspring : Downtown Renewal, Urban Image, and the Metropolitan Future -- City on Schedule : Fighting Blight to Save Cleveland's Cultural Heart -- Greater Cleveland Growthland : Industrial Flight and Boosterism in "The Best Location in the Nation" -- Believe in Cleveland : Carl B. Stokes and the Struggle to Redeem the City -- "Color, Pizzazz, Magnetism, Lift" : The Struggle to Enliven Downtown Cleveland in the 1970s -- The "Ohio City Renaissance" : The Contested Comeback on Cleveland's Near West Side -- The Best Things in Life Are Here : Rebranding "The Best Location in the Nation" -- Epilogue : Believeland. |
| Summary |
Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America's "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic malaise. Believing in Cleveland chronicles how city leaders used imagery and rhetoric to combat and, at times, accommodate urban and economic decline.Souther explores Cleveland's downtown revitalization efforts, its neighborhood renewal and restoration projects, and its fight against deindustrialization. He shows how the city reshaped its image when it was bolstered by sports team victories. But Cleveland was not always on the upswing. Souther places the city's history in the postwar context when the city and metropolitan area were divided by uneven growth. In the 1970s, the city-suburb division was wider than ever.Believing in Cleveland recounts the long, difficult history of a city that entered the postwar period as America's sixth largest, then lost ground during a period of robust national growth. But rather than tell a tale of decline, Souther provides a fascinating story of resilience for what some folks called "The Best Location in the Nation." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-258) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Souther, Jonathan Mark, 1971- author. Believing in Cleveland Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017 9781439913741 |
| LCCN | 2017010551 |
| ISBN | 9781439913727 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1439913722 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9781439913734 paper alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1439913730 paper alkaline paper |
