Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City by Colin Gordon

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

Politics and Culture in Modern America

Colin Gordon

284 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative medium-paced

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Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindu...

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