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House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
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Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how local activists and community groups helped turn these areas around. For sixty years, federal policy has attempted with little success to solve the problems of housing and poverty in America's inner cities. Yet increasingly, local organizations are picking up where Washington has left off. In a series of dramatic and colorful narratives, von Hoffman shows how these groups are revitalizing once desperate neighborhoods in five major cities: New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. The unlikely heroes include: the tough-talking Bronx priest who made apartment buildings for low-income people glisten in the midst of ruins and despair; the "crazy white man" who scrambled to save Chicago's historic Black Metropolis from the wrecking ball; the Boston cops who built a task force that put the brakes on youth gangs. Thanks to locally-based, bootstrap efforts like these, in inner-city neighborhoods across the country, crime rates are falling, real estate values are rising, and businesses are returning. Von Hoffman also shows that grass-roots work can't do it alone: successful revitalization needs the support of local government and access to business and foundation capital. Based on years of research and more than a hundred interviews, this book is the first systematic account of the dramatic urban revival now going on in the United States. House by House, Block by Block will be a must-read for anyone who cares about the fate of America's cities.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 307
EAN: 9780195176148
ISBN: 0195176146
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-10-07
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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House by House, Block by Block tells the stories of how urban neighborhood revitalization happened in five cities across America. Alexander Von Hoffman, an historian and specialist in housing and urban affairs and senior research fellow at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, takes his readers on a journey across America from east to west and describes how neighborhoods fall into decline as well as how they rise back up from the ashes of blight and devastation. The histories of neighborhoods in New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles are revealed through a series of case studies about specific neighborhoods in those cities. The case studies were developed from personal interviews, census data, private publications, and newspaper articles. Each chapter dissects the rebirth of neighborhoods beginning with the causes of decline, identifying and describing the people who facilitated the transformations, how the revitalization began on the street, and ends with a summary of lessons learned from that particular case. Overall, the book takes a comprehensive look at how change happens and who makes it happen. This book should be read by everyone interested in a step by step outline of how neighborhoods change and how neighborhood change leads to the revitalization of entire cities.
House by House, Block by Block provides a kind of "organizational chart" of how neighborhoods change in different circumstances. Each case study is centered on the people in the neighborhoods who make and are affected by revitalization. Von Hoffman's use of storytelling entices readers, pulls them into the situation, and personalizes each cast study. The author discusses politics in a realistic and candid manner and does not hold back criticisms or compliments of politicians or public policies. He also recognizes that neighborhoods decline for a myriad of reasons, and that there is no prescription for neighborhood revitalization. That said, von Hoffman asserts that neighborhood turn-arounds require support from citizens, non-profits, politicians, and corporations, but these organizations join together in very different ways depending on the time and place that change occurs. There are few weaknesses in the book, but at times, the litany of acronyms and last names can be confusing to the casual reader. While the use of acronyms makes certain sections difficult to read, the book is generally easy to read and friendly to the lay-person.
Chapter Four begins with the story of Earnest Gates, a successful black man on the brink of moving out of a bad neighborhood and into a luxury apartment in a wealthy neighborhood. Gates decides to take the money he would have spent on a fancy new apartment and renovate a home and begin to revitalize his old neighborhood. Not only does this story exemplify one way neighborhoods start to change, but it typifies von Hoffman's ability to intrigue readers with a touching story. Storytelling is one way to draw in a reader and keep them interested on a personal level, and it conveys information in a way that is accessible to a wide variety of readers.
House by House, Block by Block is an important book for planners because it details neighborhood revitalization from the beginning of the decline and includes sociological, political, economic, and locational reasons for change. The author openly discusses the racial tensions that exist in American cities and their effect on the decline of communities. He also points his finger at inept politicians, planners, and police and blames them when they are at fault for problems in their cities. The holistic approach to analyzing how neighborhoods evolve brings to light that true neighborhood revitalization requires more than simply building new housing; it requires cooperation, trust and a group of determined people and organizations with a vision for a better community.
This book supplements existing planning literature about city revitalization very well because it details events happening outside of downtowns at close range. Many planning texts and articles focus on development and revivals in downtowns and neglect the importance of the inner city neighborhood surrounding those downtowns. Von Hoffman focuses strictly on neighborhoods and fills a gap in the existing literature. He highlights the significance of neighborhoods, their inner life and soul, and the importance of the people who live in them.
The relevance of the books lies in the descriptions of how social change happens. Agents of social change range from members of the clergy to community members to landlords to politicians to urban planners. The change happens in different ways and on different levels in each case, but the outcome is always a similar - a healthier neighborhood. Studying social changes in this detailed manner reminds readers that there are no usual subjects for agents of change. Reminding people that change can happen anywhere and begin with anyone also inspires people to be revolutionaries in their own neighborhoods.
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