03331cam a2200337   45000010005000000200037000050200023000420200040000650200026001050820018001311000019001492450051001682640048002193000051002673360026003183370028003443380027003724900025003995040066004245050589004905201444010796500070025236500085025936500065026786500017027436510057027606510061028176510055028786550039029338300021029726871  a0300095775q(cloth : alk. paper)  a0300107749q(pbk.)  a9780300095777q(cloth : alk. paper)  a9780300107746q(pbk.)00a974.680432221 aRae, Douglas W10aCity :burbanism and its end /cDouglas W. Rae 1aNew Haven :bYale University Press,c[2003]  axix, 516 pages :billustrations, maps ;c25 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier1 aThe Yale ISPS series  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 477-497) and index0 aChapter 1. Creative Destruction and the Age of Urbanism --- Part I. Urbanism. Chapter 2. Industrial Convergence on a New England Town -- Chapter 3. Fabric of Enterprise -- Chapter 4. Living Local -- Chapter 5. Civic Density -- Chapter 6. A Sidewalk Republic --- Part II. End of Urbanism. Chapter 7. Business and Civic Erosion -- Chapter 8. Race, Place, and the Emergence of Spatial Hierarchy -- Chapter 9. Inventing Dick Lee -- Chapter 10. Extraordinary Politics: Dick Lee, Urban Renewal, and the End of Urbanism -- Chapter 11. The End of Urbanism -- Chapter 12. A City After Urbanism1 a""How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? In the grand lineage of Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone and Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early ""urbanist"" decades of the twentieth century. Rae's subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities."" ""Starting with a vivid sketch of the guests attending a party in August 1919, City: Urbanism and Its End presents a portrait of New Haven in a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its end of urbanism, first during the Depression, and then very aggressively during the mayoral reign of Richard C. Lee (1954-70), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending."" ""Strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Small-scale retailing, neighborhood clubs, informal enforcement of sidewalk civility, and new urbanist design may be the keys to the future. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work.""--Jacket 0aCity and town lifezConnecticutzNew HavenxHistoryy20th century 0aIndustrializationxSocial aspectszConnecticutzNew HavenxHistoryy20th century 0aUrban renewalzConnecticutzNew HavenxHistoryy20th century04aStadscultuur 0aNew Haven (Conn.)xEconomic conditionsy20th century 0aNew Haven (Conn.)xPolitics and governmenty20th century 0aNew Haven (Conn.)xSocial conditionsy20th century 7aHistory.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01411628 0aYale ISPS series