Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

by Colin Gordon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220943
• ISBN13: 9780812220940
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"