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Redevelopment and race : planning a finer city in postwar Detroit
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Redevelopment and race : planning a finer city in postwar Detroit

Author: June Manning Thomas
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1997.
Series: Creating the North American landscape.
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In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet in those same decades, Detroit was transformed from a city that enjoyed liveable neighborhoods,
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Thomas, June Manning.
Redevelopment and race.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1997
(OCoLC)605377483
Online version:
Thomas, June Manning.
Redevelopment and race.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1997
(OCoLC)631768669
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: June Manning Thomas
ISBN: 080185444X 9780801854446
OCLC Number: 35159184
Description: xx, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Contents: 1. Roots of Postwar Redevelopment --
2. Postwar Planning --
3. Eliminating Slums and Blight --
4. Racial Flight and the Conservation Experiment --
5. Revisioning Urban Renewal --
6. Rising from the Fire --
7. Coleman Young and Redevelopment --
8. Planning a Better City --
9. Racial Disunity --
10. Conclusion: Moving toward a Finer City.
Series Title: Creating the North American landscape.
Responsibility: June Manning Thomas.
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Abstract:

In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet in those same decades, Detroit was transformed from a city that enjoyed liveable neighborhoods, healthy commercial strips, a bustling downtown, and beautiful parks into the notorious symbol of urban decay that it is today.

In Redevelopment and Race, June Manning Thomas explains what went wrong. She demonstrates how and why government programs were ineffective and even destructive to community needs - and how social striving and class disunity added a further difficulty to their implementation. Examining the city she knew first as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University and later as a scholar and planner, Thomas argues for a different approach to traditional planning - one that places social justice, equity, and community ahead of purely physical and economic objectives. A unique historical analysis of the interaction or redevelopment and racial issues in one city, this book offers an important contribution to both planning history and urban studies.

Thomas's thoughtful solutions offer hope to both citizens and government agencies that struggle every day with redevelopment issues in America's older industrial cities.

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