Renewing Birmingham
Subtitle: federal funding and the promise of change, 1929-1979
By: Christopher MacGregor Scribner
Series: Economy and society in the modern South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Urban renewal -- Alabama -- Birmingham; Grants-in-aid -- Alabama -- Birmingham; Federal aid to community development -- Alabama -- Birmingham; Federal-city relations -- Alabama -- Birmingham; Social change -- Alabama -- Birmingham; Birmingham (Ala.) -- Social conditions; Birmingham (Ala.) -- Economic conditions; Birmingham (Ala.) -- Politics and government
Description: "Renewing Birmingham is the first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Christopher MacGregor Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham's transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power, influence, and justice in the city."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-179) and index