The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis (The Multi City Study of Urban Inequality)

Bluestone, Barry; Stevenson, Mary Huff

ISBN 10: 0871541254 / ISBN 13: 9780871541253

Editore: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000

Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects. Codice articolo T05B-04909

Riassunto:

This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries.

Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization.

A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality

Informazioni sull?autore:

BARRY BLUESTONE is the Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.

MARY HUFF STEVENSON is associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and senior fellow at its McCormack Institute of Public Affairs.

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Titolo: The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and ...
Casa editrice: Russell Sage Foundation
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: As New
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