The 20th-Century American City: Problem, Promise & Reality

An updated edition of the essential text from "a respected urban historian" (Annals of Iowa).

Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the nation. Race, ethnicity, and class splintered the metropolis both literally and figuratively, thwarting efforts to cr...