The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis (Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality) - Hardcover

Bluestone, Barry; Stevenson, Mary Huff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871541254 ISBN 13: 9780871541253

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000

Synopsis

This volume documents metropolitan 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. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries.

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.

A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality

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Editorial Reviews

"The Boston Renaissance is a tour de force. Drawing upon a rich array of new data, Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson provide an original and insightful analysis of Boston's remarkable triple revolution. This book is replete with information and should be read by scholars and students alike." —William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University

"How an old and declining northeast city transformed itself into one of the most successful urban communities in America is a story that must be told, and it is told effectively in The Boston Renaissance." —Michael S. Dukakis, professor of political science and former governor of Massachusetts

About the Author

BARRY BLUESTONE is the Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.

MARY HUFF STEVENSON is associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and senior fellow at its McCormack Institute of Public Affairs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0871541254
• ISBN 13: 9780871541253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 476