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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 List of Tables and Maps 10 Acknowledgments 12 ONE - Introduction: Economic Restructuring, Urban Change, and Neighborhoods in Crisis 16 TWO - Neighborhood Associations as Place-Based Collective Actors 30 THREE - Albany, the Restructured City: State Government, Its Political Machine, and Neighborhood Politics 53 FOUR - Center Square and Its Neighborhood Association:Organizing Jor Success 79 FIVE - Arbor Hill: Revitalizing an Inner-City Neighborhood 107 SIX - Schenectady, the Declining City: General Electric, Deindustrialization, and Strategies for the City's Renewal 135 SEVEN - The Stockade: Definding the Gentrified Neighborhood in a Declining Industrial City 158 EIGHT - Hamilton Hill: A Low-Income Neighborhood Struggling for Survival 179 NINE - Neighborhoods, Strategies, and the City Context 206 References 228 Index 242 Publisher:Temple University Press,Published:1996,ISBN:9781439903476,Language:English,OCLC:630545118 In the 1980s the failure of corporate strategies and trickle-down economics led to gross inequalities among many U.S. neighborhoods and cities. By examining and comparing a gentrifying and a low-income neighborhood in two medium-sized c

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Author

Rabrenovic, Gordana

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439903476

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Social Science