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Confronting Urban Legacy

Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

von: Xiangming Chen, Nick Bacon, Llana Barber, Janet Bauer, Tom Condon, Jack Dougherty, James R. Gomes, Clyde McKee, Ezra Moser, Jason Rojas, Michael Sacks, John Shemo, Louise Simmons, Andrew Walsh, Lyle Wray
57,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	18.10.2013
ISBN/EAN:	9780739149447
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	324

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Titelbeschreibung

Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very large global cities but also maintains a void in students’ learning. This book specifically explores the transformative relationship between globalization and urban transition in Hartford, Connecticut, while including crucial comparative chapters on other forgotten New England cities: Portland, Maine, along with Lawrence and Springfield, Massachusetts. Hartford’s transformation carries a striking imprint of globalization that has been largely missed: from its 17th century roots as New England first inland colonial settlement, to its emergence as one of the world’s most prosperous manufacturing and insurance metropolises, to its present configuration as one of America’s poorest post-industrial cities, which by still retaining a globally lucrative FIRE Sector is nevertheless surrounded by one of the nation’s most prosperous metropolitan regions. The myriad of dilemmas confronting Hartford calls for this book to take an interdisciplinary approach. The editors’ introduction places Hartford in a global comparative perspective; Part I provides rich historical delineations of the many rises and (not quite) falls of Hartford; Part II offers a broad contemporary treatment of Hartford by dissecting recent immigration and examining the demographic and educational dimensions of the city-suburban divide; and Part III unpacks Hartford’s current social, economic, and political situation and discusses what the city could become. Using the lessons from this book on Hartford and other underappreciated secondary cities in New England, urban scholars, leaders, and residents alike can gain a number of essential insights—both theoretical and practical.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue Chapter 1: Introduction: Once Prosperous and Now Challenged: Hartford’s Transformation in Comparative and Global Perspectives Part 1: Urban Past and Present in New England Chapter 2: Hartford: A Global History Chapter 3: Podunk after Pratt: Place and Placelessness in East Hartford, Connecticut Chapter 4: “If We Would…Leave the City, This Would Be a Ghost Town”: Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 Part II: Social and Community Transformations Chapter 5: Poverty, Inequality, Politics, and Social Activism in Hartford Chapter 6: Investigating Spatial Inequality with the Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project Chapter 7: The Puerto Rican Effect on Hispanic Residential Segregation: Hartford and Springfield Metropolitan Areas in National Perspective Chapter 8: A Metro Immigrant Gateway: Refugees in the Hartford Borderlands Chapter 9: Re-Imagining Portland, Maine: Urban Renaissance and a Refugee Community Part III: Renewing Hartford: Global and Regional Dynamics Chapter 10: Shifting Fortunes: Hartford’s Global and Regional Economic Dimensions Chapter 11: A Tragic Dialectic: Politics and the Transformation of Hartford Chapter 12: Metropolitan Hartford: Regional Challenges and Responses Chapter 13: A Sobering Era with New Possibilities Chapter 14: Conclusion: Inheritance, Inertia, and Inspirations: The Potential Remaking of Hartford

Leserinfo

In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. Focusing on the dynamic urban/global legacy of Hartford, Connecticut, the volume is bolstered by comparative chapters on Portland, Maine, Lawrence, Massachusetts and Springfield, Massachusetts. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners.

Autorenportrait

Xiangming Chen is founding dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Paul Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as visiting professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He is author of As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim. Nick Bacon is research associate in urban studies at the Center for Urban and Global Studies and a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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