Where the River Burned : Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801455667
- Stokes, Carl
- Urban renewal -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Community development -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Cleveland (Ohio) -- Environmental conditions
- 977.1/32
- F499
WHERE THE RIVER BURNED -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Crisis in the Urban Environment -- 1. What Will Become of Cleveland? -- 2. Hough and the Urban Crisis -- 3. Downtown and the Limits of Urban Renewal -- 4. Policy and the Polluted City -- 5. The Burning River -- 6. From Earth Day to EcoCity -- Epilogue: What Became of Cleveland -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index.
In Where the River Burned, David Stradling and Richard Stradling describe Cleveland's nascent transition from polluted industrial city to viable service city during the administration of Carl Stokes, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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