The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities

The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities
ISBN-10
1893554104
ISBN-13
9781893554108
Category
Political Science
Pages
314
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Encounter Books
Author
Frederick F. Siegel

Description

Each of Siegel's three urban portraits--New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, -- shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they once seemed to embody. In a narrative that acknowledges the large historical forces that have remade the face of America over the last three decades, but insists that social policies are not merely foregone conclusions waiting to happen, Siegel holds up a mirror to our urban naure and tells us much about the way we live now.

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