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A good place to do business : the politics of downtown renewal since 1945
The \"Pittsburgh Renaissance,\" an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city's downtown.Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers.
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Interstate
This new, expanded edition brings the story of the
Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an
account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and
communities as the urban expressways of the highway network
destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities.
Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts,
when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San
Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and
other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records
of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway
Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation
brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame
the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state
highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation
decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze
the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s,
especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
(ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund
dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking
trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the
surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement,
an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging,
and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through
the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway
activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to
restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar
lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised
edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid
research by two well-known scholars.
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A President Visits East St. Louis: The Racialized Politics of Market Talk, Enterprise Zones, and Abandonment, 1980–2010
Local officials had played no part in formulating Clinton's economic development proposals. Bill Clinton Visits East St. Louis On August 6, 1992, as candidate for president, Clinton and Senator Albert A. Gore, his choice for vice president, spoke and replied to questions in front of an audience gathered at the East St. Louis Senior High School gymnasium. (Hannibal was best known as Mark Twain's boyhood home.) By 1992, however, Hannibal, like East St. Louis, was another Mississippi River city that had expanded decades earlier only to experience a prolonged period of decline as part of the shuttering of manufacturing firms and an accompanying slowdown in railroad and river barge traffic. Sperling characterized the president's trip as “an economic mission in our own backyard,” much like the trade missions that federal and state officials made to non-white, impoverished nations. 2 By anyone's set of calculations, East St. Louis's economic recovery appeared a longshot.
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United States Bank Rescue Politics, 2008–2009: A Business Historian's View
First I describe my background in American historical scholarship. Thereafter, I assess the efforts of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama and their senior advisors to stabilize American financial institutions during the period 2008–2009. My fundamental contention is that state actors such as Bush and Obama structured financial industries and markets. Despite the ubiquitous presence of these state actors, however, American business and political leaders maintained the fiction that state and business were, and properly ought to remain, separate entities. In Part III, I return to my scholarly background and to a proposed scaffolding for historical scholarship focused on the political economy of U.S. financial institutions since 1970.
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United States Bank Rescue Politics, 2008-2009: A Business Historian's View
First I describe my background in American historical scholarship. Thereafter, I assess the efforts of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama and their senior advisors to stabilize American financial institutions during the period 2008-2009. My fundamental contention is that state actors such as Bush and Obama structured financial industries and markets. Despite the ubiquitous presence of these state actors, however, American business and political leaders maintained the fiction that state and business were, and properly ought to remain, separate entities. In Part III, I return to my scholarly background and to a proposed scaffolding for historical scholarship focused on the political economy of U.S. financial institutions since 1970.
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Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr., 1918-2007: An Introduction
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was born in 1918. On May 9, 2007, Professor Chandler died at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the course of a remarkably productive career, Chandler's ideas about corporate growth and the central role of managers rather than markets in fostering that growth helped shape the scholarship of generations of sociologists, political scientists, and business historians. In 1952, Harvard University awarded the PhD to Chandler. In 1956, he published Henry Varnum Poor, and in 1962, he published Strategy and Structure, one among several of his widely recognized and regularly cited books. In 2005, at age 87, Chandler published, Shaping the Industrial Century, his final book. In between those volumes, Chandler's major books included The Visible Hand (1977), which in 1978 earned the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes, and Scale and Scope, published in 1990. Business executives around the world read Chandler, unlike most books by historians. Throughout his publications, Chandler sought to explain the growth of large corporations such as the Pennsylvania Railroad and General Motors. After Chandler, serious scholars studying the organization and operation of large business firms had to acknowledge his thesis regarding the administrative coordination provided by counterparts to top executives like GM's Sloan and middle managers such as the Pennsylvania Railroads heads of machinery.
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