Erualdo R Gonzalez

Latino City

Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a wide-ranging critical analysis of the last two-decade's highest profiled and debated models of urban revitalization in the United States and the fresh challenges that we encounter in applying the models in Latino urban cores. The book explores how creative class and new urbanism revitalization projects combine to form revitalization projects in a city that considered one of the United States' most Mexican communities; Santa Ana in California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781138820548
• ISBN-10: 1138820547
• Artikelnr.: 41375113

Autorenporträt

Erualdo Romero González is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton, USA. His research and teaching interests are community development and participation, urban politics and governance, urban planning and health equity, and critical and Latino urbanism. He examines the intersection of these topics with race, ethnicity, class, and immigration, with an emphasis on Chicana/o-Latina/o communities.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms
Introduction: Urban Planning in the Latino City
1 The Latino City Emerges, 1900-1980s
2 The Politics of Redevelopment and Resistance to Eminent Domain, 1980s
3 La Cuatro Under Threat, 1990-2010s
4 The Grassroots Rises, 2000s
Conclusion
Index