Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth : Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth (Hardcover)

List of Tables; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Urban America in 1950; 1. Urban Areas of the Northeast; 2. Urban Areas of the Sunbelt before Air Conditioning; 3. An American Dilemma in 1950; Part II. Urban Growth and Prosperity: 1950-1970; 4. The Industrial Northeast and the Great Migration; 5. The New Sunbelt Takes Off; 6. Suburbanization: 1950-1970; 7. Signs of Trouble Ahead; 8. August 1965; Part III. The Years of Urban Crisis: 1970-1990; 9. The Great Society and the Urban Riots; 10. Urban Employment Trends in the Northeast; 11. Urban Growth in the Sunbelt: 1970-1990; 12. New Urban Scholarship; 13. The Vicious Circle in Urban America; Part IV. The Rebirth of Urban America after 1990; 14. Rebirth in America's Cities; 15. Urban Rebirth in the Northeast: 1990-2000; 16. Urban Growth and Rebirth in the Sunbelt; 17. Trends after 2000: What Is Next for Urban America?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.