The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis

by Mary Huff Stevenson and Barry Bluestone

Book Overview

This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871541262
• ISBN13: 9780871541260
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"