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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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City on the Edge: Hard Choices in the American Rust Belt

City on the Edge: Hard Choices in the American Rust Belt

Streissguth, Michael

Paperback

Series: Excelsior Editions

Biographies GeneralGeneral SociologyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1438479905
ISBN13: 9781438479903
Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
Published: Sep 1 2020
Pages: 281
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Explores why people stay in vulnerable cities by looking at Syracuse, New York, through the contemporary experiences of five citizens.

Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintessential rust-belt metropolis. Once a booming industrial center with a dynamic civic life and prominence on the world stage, Syracuse has endured decades of crime, drugs, economic depression, absent-minded political leadership, and population decline. Michael Streissguth spent more than three years interviewing a young survivor of the streets, a refugee from Cuba, an urban farmer, a community activist, and a city elder, who shared their stories as they found ways to make life work against sometimes formidable odds. He also contextualizes their extended commentary and storytelling with secondary characters and various episodes, such as a tragic Father's Day riot and the trial that followed. The result is an eye-opening look at life in America in the twenty-first century, where people strive to turn their ideas, frustrations, and disadvantages into new hope for themselves and the city where they live.

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