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“The Housing Act of 1949 fundamentally changed cities, towns, and suburbs in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Many Geographies of Urban Renewal grapples with the complexity of federal housing programs as they played out in real places, and the editor and contributors incorporate innovative data collection strategies and mapping tools to ask important new questions. If you thought you knew all there was to know about urban renewal, this book will challenge you to think again.”—Nancy H. Kwak, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and History at the University of California, San Diego, and author of A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid “The Many Geographies of Urban Renewal breaks new ground in our understanding of mid-to late twentieth-century U.S. cities, specifically challenging long-held assumptions about the urban renewal program of the 1950s to 1970s. Appler has pioneered a much-needed corrective to the longtime fixation on urban renewal as a large-city program. This book will greatly expand the need for seeing the importance of smaller communities in the overall federal program. It is a startlingly original and essentially new interpretation of urban renewal.”—J. Mark Souther, Professor of History at Cleveland State University, and author of Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation” (Temple)

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Douglas R. Appler is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky. He is co-editor of Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning: Preserving Heritage within the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States.

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