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Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest

Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest

Teaford, Jon C.

Paperback

Series: Midwestern History and Culture

General SociologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0253209145
ISBN13: 9780253209146
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Apr 22 1993
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis. --Library Journal

Teaford writes a definitive history of the transformation of America's heartland into the Rust Belt, chronicling the development of the cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East, from their heyday to the trying times of the 1970s and '80s. The early part of this century brought wealth and promise to the heartland: automobile production made Detroit a boomtown, and automobile-related industries enriched communities; Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School of architects asserted the Midwest's aesthetic independence; Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg established Chicago as a literary mecca; Jane Addams made the Illinois metropolis an urban laboratory for experiments in social justice. Soon, however, emerging Sunbelt cities began to rob such cities as Cincinnati, Saint Louis, and Chicago of their distinction as boom areas, foreshadowing urban crisis.

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