Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia
Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore
Vicino, Thomas J.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs--the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once the bastion of a large middle class, have matured and experienced three decades of social and economic decline. In the first comprehensive analysis of suburban decline for an entire region, Vicino uses Baltimore as an illustrative case to chronicle how first-tier suburbs experienced widespread decline while outer suburbs flourished since the 1970s. At the brink of the twenty-first century, Vicino illustrates how the processes of deindustrialization, racial diversity, and class segregation have shaped the evolution of suburban decline.
AUTHOR BIO
Thomas J. Vicino is Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs at University of Texas at Arlington. He was formerly a researcher at the UMBC Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education. He is a recognized expert on the political economy of suburban decline and urban policy. His recent work appears in peer-reviewed journals such as Urban Studies, Urban Geography, The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Geography Compass, as well as the Encyclopedia of American Urban History and several book chapters. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore.
BOOK REVIEWS
"This is the most sophisticated study yet of first-tier suburban decline. Scholars and policymakers have only begun to catch up to the fact that the urban crisis has moved to the suburbs. Vicino gets it. His book will be indispensable for anyone who wants to understand the rapidly changing suburban landscape. Vicino shatters the conventional image of suburbia: Leave It to Beaver gives way to the New Suburban Gothic. Vicino displays the complex geography of first-tier suburbs pockmarked by bleak landscapes left behind by suburban sprawl. Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia is essential reading for anyone interested in suburban decline."--Todd Swanstrom, Professor of Public Policy Studies, St. Louis University, and co-author of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century
"Vicino masterfully provides a comprehensive analysis of the decline of
the first-tier suburbs of Baltimore County, Maryland over the past
several decades and describes the efforts of that County and the State
to counter this trend, providing important lessons for other
metropolitan areas with similar patterns of decline in their older suburbs."
Dennis Keating, Levin College Distinguished Professor at Cleveland State University and Author of "The Suburban Racial Dilemma" (Temple University Press, 1994)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230605451
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230605459
Dewey Decimal: 305.5097526
Library of Congress: 2007052296
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 227
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