Urban lowlands
Subtitle: a history of neighborhoods, poverty, and planning
By: Steven T. Moga
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780226710679
Subjects: City planning; History; Neighborhood planning; Case studies; Urban poor; Urban health; Urban minorities; Urban ecology (Sociology); Discrimination; Quartiers (Urbanisme); Planification; Histoire; Études de cas; Pauvres en milieu urbain; Santé urbaine; Minorités en milieu urbain; Écologie urbaine; HISTORY; General
Description: "Steven Moga offers an unprecedented and multidisciplinary tour of urban lowlands, bringing a fresh perspective to the history of urban development in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Looking closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and The Flats in Los Angeles, Moga compares and contrasts patterns of land use, reactions to disease and public health, the treatment of waste, and social discrimination against immigrants, ethnic groups, and African Americans. He creates an alternative interpretive framework for studying poverty and the urban environment, with implications for the contemporary American city"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The low wards; title: From bottomlands to bottom neighborhoods; title: Harlem Flats : New York, New York; title: Black Bottom : Nashville, Tennessee; title: Swede Hollow : Saint Paul, Minnesota; title: The Flats : Los Angeles, California; title: Landscapes of poverty and power; title: Epilogue : lowland legacies.