Rise And Fall Of The American Downtown

"Fogelson delivers one of the most lucid accounts to date of the intricate process by which business interests and municipal officeholders hijacked the decades-old affordable-housing movement and transformed it into an ill-fated scheme to draw the middle class back downtown. Federally funded urban renewal cleared slums, erected middle-income housing and gave some urban institutions renewed facilities but ultimately failed in its attempt to remake most downtowns as modern utopias."