Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest - Paperback
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Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest
"Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis." --Library Journal
Teaford writes a definitive history of the transformation of "America's heartland" into the "Rust Belt," chronicling the development of the cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East, from their heyday to the trying times of the 1970s and '80s. The...
JON C. TEAFORD is Professor of History at Purdue University. He is the author of a number of previous books on American urban history, including City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850-1970 and The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985.
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