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Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods

Achievements, Opportunities, and Limits
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Reporting the progress in the fight against the ingrained poverty and social problems of many areas with in the US, this text includes case studies from many cities which highlight the achievements in such communities. '
Introduction - W Dennis Keating Federal Policy and Poor Urban Neighborhoods - W Dennis Keating Atlanta - Larry Keating Peoplestown - Resilience and Tenacity versus Institutional Hostility Camden, New Jersey - Robert A Catlin Urban Decay and the Absence of Public-Private Partnerships Chicago - Robert Giloth Community Building on Chicago's West Side - North Lawndale 1960-1997 Cleveland - Norman Krumholz The Hough and Central Neighborhoods - Empowerment Zones and Other Urban Policies Detroit - Mittie O Chandler Staying the Course - Detroit's Struggle to Revitalize the Inner City East St Louis, Illinois - Kenneth Reardon Promoting Community Development through Empowerment Planning Los Angeles - Ali Modarres Borders to Poverty - Empowerment Zones and Spatial Politics of Development Miami - Dennis E Gale The Overtown Neighborhood - A Generation of Revitalization Strategies Gone Awry New York - Tom Angotti Challenges Facing Neighborhoods in Distress Future Prospects for Distressed Urban Neighborhoods - W Dennis Keating and Norman Krumholz
". . .a useful book, clearly written. . .accessible for students of urban studies and the practitioners who wish to know about the American efforts to deal with the problems of distressed neighborhoods." -- Ali Madanipour
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