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- The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: Russell Sage Foundation
- Series: Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality
summary
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
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- About the Authors
- pp. ix-x
- References
- pp. 409-434
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610440714
Related ISBN(s)
9780871541253, 9780871541260
MARC Record
OCLC
905604687
Pages
476
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2000