The Fate of Cities: Urban America and the Federal Government, 1945-2000

by Roger Biles

Book Overview

By the end of the twentieth century, decaying inner cities in America continued to lose ground despite the best efforts of local and federal officials. By then the investment in urban revitalization begun during the activist 1960s had become a romantic memory. Roger Biles's insightful new book shows why. The first major comprehensive treatment of the subject in thirty-five years, superseding Mark Gelfand's landmark A Nation of Cities, it examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061768X
• ISBN13: 9780700617685
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"