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The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis
The Boston Renaissance Race Space and Economic Change in an American Metropolis Author:Barry Bluestone, Mary Huff Stevenson This volume documents Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits, and a stream of immigrants has flowed into the ar... more »ea, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization.« less