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Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Michigan) (Creating the North American Landscape) by Thomas, Professor June Manning is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet in those same decades, Detroit was transformed from a city that enjoyed liveable neighborhoods, healthy commercial strips, a bustling downtown, and beautiful parks into the notorious symbol of urban decay that it is today.</p><p>In Redevelopment and Race, June Manning Thomas explains what went wrong. She demonstrates how and why government programs were ineffective and even destructive to community needs -- and how social striving and class disunity added a further difficulty to their implementation. Examining the city she knew first as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University and later as a scholar and planner, Thomas argues for a different approach to traditional planning -- one that places social justice, equity, and community ahead of purely physical and economic objectives. A unique historical analysis of the interaction of redevelopment and racial i

Author

Thomas, Professor June Manning

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801854446

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science