Description: Urban Lowlands : A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning, Paperback by Moga, Steven T., ISBN 022683333X, ISBN-13 9780226833330, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Interrogates the connections between a city’s physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City, Black Bottom in Nashville, Swede Hollow in Saint Paul, and the Flats in Los Angeles, to interrogate the connections between a city’s actual landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective on the history of US urban development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Moga reveals patterns of inequitable land use, economic dispossession, and social discrimination against immigrants and minorities. In attending to the landscapes of neighborhoods typically considered slums, Moga shows how physical and policy-driven containment has shaped the lives of the urban poor, while wealth and access to resources have been historically concentrated in elevated areas—truly “the heights.” Moga’s innovative framework expands our understanding of how planning and economic segregation alike have molded the American city.
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Book Title: Urban Lowlands : A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Plannin
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Urban Lowlands : a History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, Social History, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Author: Steven T. Moga
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
