The Boston Renaissance Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis - Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality
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This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries. Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization. A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality
Book information
ISBN: | 9780871541260 |
Publisher: | Russell Sage Foundation |
Imprint: | Russell Sage Foundation |
Pub date: | 05 Sep 2002 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 476 |
Weight: | 725g |
Height: | 234mm |
Width: | 171mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |