History of Saint Louis County, Missouri
Author: William Lyman Thomas
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Published: 2003-10-01
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780740442032
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Author: William Lyman Thomas
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Published: 2003-10-01
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780740442032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Tranel
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1883982618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Reviews the history of various aspects of planning in St. Louis City and County and provides insight into planning successes and challenges"--Provided by publisher.
Author: William Hyde
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 542
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Colin Gordon
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2014-09-12
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0812291506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Thomas Scharf
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 1272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Aaron Wright
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781883982454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican Americans have been part of the story of St. Louis since the city's founding in 1764. Unfortunately, most histories of the city have overlooked or ignored their vital role, allowing their influence and accomplishments to go unrecorded or uncollected; that is, until the publication of Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites in 1994. A new and updated 2002 edition is now available to take readers on a fascinating tour of nearly four hundred African American landmarks. From the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis in East St. Louis, Illinois, to the site of the house that sparked the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer court case, the maps, photographs, and text of Discovering African American St. Louis record a history that has been neglected for too long. The guidebook covers fourteen regions east and west of the Mississippi that represent St. Louis's rich African American heritage. In the words of historian Gary Kremer, "No one who reads this book and visits and contemplates the places and peoples whose stories it recounts will be able to look at St. Louis in the same way ever again."
Author: Andrew J Theising
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Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlorissant, Missouri, is an old city with a distinguished history. Like many other places, it is part of slavery's legacy. This book examines slavery in and around Florissant and explores the history of the African American experience in North St. Louis County.
Author: Saint Louis County (Mo.). Office of the Supervisor
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: L. U. Reavis
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Published: 1871
Total Pages: 224
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