Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in "The Best Location in the Nation"

by J. Mark Souther

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439913730
• ISBN13: 9781439913734
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"