Believing in Cleveland : Managing Decline in the Best Location in the Nation.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- Urban Life, Landscape and Policy Series .
- Urban Life, Landscape and Policy Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Rewinding Cleveland's Mainspring: Downtown Renewal, Urban Image, and the Metropolitan Future -- 2. City on Schedule: Fighting Blight to Save Cleveland's Cultural Heart -- 3. Greater Cleveland Growthland: Industrial Flight and Boosterism in "The Best Location in the Nation" -- 4. Believe in Cleveland: Carl B. Stokes and the Struggle to Redeem the City -- 5. "Color, Pizzazz, Magnetism, Lift": The Struggle to Enliven Downtown Cleveland in the 1970s -- 6. The "Ohio City Renaissance": The Contested Comeback on Cleveland's Near West Side -- 7. The Best Things in Life Are Here: Rebranding "The Best Location in the Nation" -- Epilogue: Believeland -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.