The New Urban Frontier
The New Urban Frontier

Author: Neil Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-10-26

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1134787464

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Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

The Theatre on the Frontier
The Theatre on the Frontier

Author: William Glasgow Bruce Carson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-07

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781396665240

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Excerpt from The Theatre on the Frontier: The Early Years of the St. Louis Stage Finally, in closing, I desire to express my very deep and sin cere appreciation of the interest manifested in my work by my colleagues at Washington University and of the encourage ment they have given me on all occasions. I am especially grateful to Professor W. R. Mackenzie and Professor George B. Parks for valuable suggestions and advice; to Professor Ralph Bieber for sharing with me his knowledge of frontier history; and to Professor Richard F. Jones for the many hours he has devoted to helping me to the solution of knotty problems and the effective presentation of my material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.