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Author | : Colin Gordon |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2014-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812291506 |
Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.
Author | : Robert Sharoff |
Publisher | : Images Publishing |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1864704292 |
St. Louis is one of the most architecturally impressive cities in the United States, with a heritage of innovative design stretching back to the early 1800s. This is reflected in the architecture of the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods. More than just about any city in America, St. Louis embraced the imposing forms and lush ornamentation of the Beaux Arts tradition. Indeed, one can make the argument that only Washington, D.C. in the United States has a more impressive collection of classically inspired structures. American City: St. Louis Architecture is the first large-format book on the city's architecture since the 1920s, and includes over 100 new color photographs and text for 50 of the city's most important structures. These range from such 19th Century masterpieces as Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, Alfred Mullet's Old Post Office and Theodore Link's Union Station, to Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch, Tadao Andao's Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Building and Maya Lin's recently completed Ellen Clark Hope Plaza.
Author | : Joseph Heathcott |
Publisher | : Missouri Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Manners and customs |
ISBN | : 9781883982836 |
"The St. Louis Street Department in 1900-1930 took thousands of photos to document municipal challenges and improvements, inadvertently capturing detailed scenes of everyday life. The images reveal the national trend among cities to use the camera as a documentary tool, and they showcase the city of St. Louis at the turn of the century"--
Author | : Charles Van Ravenswaay |
Publisher | : Missouri History Museum |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252019159 |
Author | : Saint Louis (Mo.). City Plan Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Art, Municipal |
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Author | : J. Frederick Fausz |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614233829 |
The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to found a cosmopolitan center of international commerce that was a model of multicultural harmony. Historian J. Frederick Fausz offers a fresh interpretation of Saint Louis from 1764 to 1804, explaining how Pierre Lacl de, the early Chouteaus, Saint Ange de Bellerive and the Osage Indians established a "gateway" to an enlightened, alternative frontier of peace and prosperity before Lewis and Clark were even born. Historians, genealogists and general readers will appreciate the well-researched perspectives in this engaging story about a novel French West long ignored in American History.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Saint Louis (Mich.) |
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Author | : Mary Bartley |
Publisher | : Virginia Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780963144843 |
Author | : L. U. Reavis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Saint Louis (Mo.) |
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Author | : James J. Horgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
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