9781610917810-1610917812-The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America

The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America

ISBN-13: 9781610917810
ISBN-10: 1610917812
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Alan Mallach
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Island Press
Format: Paperback 344 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781610917810
ISBN-10: 1610917812
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Alan Mallach
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Island Press
Format: Paperback 344 pages

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The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America (ISBN-13: 9781610917810 and ISBN-10: 1610917812), written by authors Alan Mallach, was published by Island Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Urban & Land Use Planning (Architecture, Urban, Sociology, Class) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Urban & Land Use Planning books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.29.

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Who really benefits from urban revival? Cities, from trendy coastal areas to the nation’s heartland, are seeing levels of growth beyond the wildest visions of only a few decades ago. But vast areas in the same cities house thousands of people living in poverty who see little or no new hope or opportunity. Even as cities revive, they are becoming more unequal and more segregated. What does this mean for these cities—and the people who live in them?

In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach shows us what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He draws from his decades of experience working in America’s cities, and pulls in insightful research and data, to spotlight these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social, and political context. Mallach explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change.

The Divided City offers strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity. Mallach makes a compelling case that these strategies must be local in addition to being concrete and focusing on people’s needs—education, jobs, housing and quality of life. Change, he argues, will come city by city, not through national plans or utopian schemes.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, grounded picture of the transformation of America’s older industrial cities. It is neither a dystopian narrative nor a one-sided "the cities are back" story, but a balanced picture rooted in the nitty-gritty reality of these cities. The Divided City is imperative for anyone who cares about cities and who wants to understand how to make today’s urban revival work for everyone.

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