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Gillette, Howard Jr. Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City University of Pennsylvania, 2005. 323 pp. ISBN: 0812219686
Howard Gillette Jr. offers us an often fascinating account of how city and state governments have attempted to manage decline. Gillette uses the apt metaphor of trying to ascend a "down" escalator to describe the challenges faced by local addressing urban decline: How can the downward slide be halted or even reversed? And ultimately, what drives the "escalator" downward in the first place? To help answer these questions, the author examines closely three renewal strategies that were attempted in Camden, New Jersey.
Camden's postwar industrial economy held up well--until, that is, the 1960s, after which forty-eight per cent of the city's industrial jobs disappeared in... |
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