An Approach to Philadelphia's Industrial Renewal Problem
Title | An Approach to Philadelphia's Industrial Renewal Problem PDF eBook |
Author | Bureau of Municipal Research (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Industrial location |
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(The) Usefulness of Philadelphia's Industrial Plant
Title | (The) Usefulness of Philadelphia's Industrial Plant PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1960 |
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The Usefulness of Philadelphia's Industrial Plant
Title | The Usefulness of Philadelphia's Industrial Plant PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur D. Little, Inc |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | City planning |
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Elements of a Comprehensive Industrial Renewal Program for Philadelphia
Title | Elements of a Comprehensive Industrial Renewal Program for Philadelphia PDF eBook |
Author | Bureau of Municipal Research (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Industrial location |
ISBN |
Industrial Renewal
Title | Industrial Renewal PDF eBook |
Author | Community Renewal Program (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Industries |
ISBN |
The Philadelphia Story of Industrial Renewal
Title | The Philadelphia Story of Industrial Renewal PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Graves |
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Pages | |
Release | 1959 |
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Chicago's Industrial Decline
Title | Chicago's Industrial Decline PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lewis |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2020-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501752642 |
In Chicago's Industrial Decline Robert Lewis charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and reviled) growth machine. Beginning in the 1940s and led by local politicians, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organizations in Chicago implemented several industrial renewal initiatives with the dual purpose of stopping factory closings and attracting new firms in order to turn blighted property into modern industrial sites. At the same time, a more powerful coalition sought to adapt the urban fabric to appeal to middle-class consumption and residential living. As Lewis shows, the two aims were never well integrated, and the result was on-going disinvestment and the inexorable decline of Chicago's industrial space. By the 1950s, Lewis argues, it was evident that the early incarnation of the growth machine had failed to maintain Chicago's economic center in industry. Although larger economic and social forces—specifically, competition for business and for residential development from the suburbs in the Chicagoland region and across the whole United States—played a role in the city's industrial decline, Lewis stresses the deep incoherence of post-WWII economic policy and urban planning that hoped to square the circle by supporting both heavy industry and middle- to upper-class amenities in downtown Chicago.