Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”

Author:   J. Mark Souther
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
ISBN:  

9781439913734


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 November 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”


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Detractors have called it ""The Mistake on the Lake."" It was once America’s ""Comeback City."" According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic malaise. Believing in Cleveland chronicles how city leaders used imagery and rhetoric to combat and, at times, accommodate urban and economic decline. Souther explores Cleveland's downtown revitalization efforts, its neighborhood renewal and restoration projects, and its fight against deindustrialization. He shows how the city reshaped its image when it was bolstered by sports team victories. But Cleveland was not always on the upswing. Souther places the city's history in the postwar context when the city and metropolitan area were divided by uneven growth. In the 1970s, the city-suburb division was wider than ever. Believing in Cleveland recounts the long, difficult history of a city that entered the postwar period as America's sixth largest, then lost ground during a period of robust national growth. But rather than tell a tale of decline, Souther provides a fascinating story of resilience for what some folks called ""The Best Location in the Nation.""

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Author:   J. Mark Souther
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9781439913734


ISBN 10:   1439913730
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Believing in Cleveland's main contribution is as a first-rate work of urban political and redevelopment history from World War II through the populist Kucinich administration in the1970s.... Souther offers a meticulously researched and integrated work of urban history, political economy, and economic development on what was once the fifth largest city in the United States, if not 'The Best Location in the Nation.' -- Economic Development Quarterly


"""Believing in Cleveland’s main contribution is as a first-rate work of urban political and redevelopment history from World War II through the populist Kucinich administration in the1970s.... Souther offers a meticulously researched and integrated work of urban history, political economy, and economic development on what was once the fifth largest city in the United States, if not 'The Best Location in the Nation.'""-- Economic Development Quarterly"


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J. Mark Souther is Professor of History at Cleveland State University and the author of New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City.

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