A nice place to visit : tourism and urban revitalization in the postwar Rustbelt
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A nice place to visit : tourism and urban revitalization in the postwar Rustbelt
(Urban life, landscape, and policy)
Temple University Press, 2016
- : cloth
- : paper
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How did tourism gain a central role in the postwar American Rustbelt city? And how did tourism development reshape the meaning and function of these cities? These are the questions at the heart of Aaron Cowan's groundbreaking book, A Nice Place to Visit.
Cowan provides an insightful, comparative look at the historical development of Cincinnati, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore in the post-World War II period to show how urban tourism provided a potential solution to the economic woes of deindustrialization. A Nice Place to Visit chronicles the visions of urban leaders who planned hotels, convention centers, stadiums, and festival marketplaces to remake these cities as tourist destinations. Cowan also addresses the ever-present tensions between tourist development and the needs and demands of residents in urban communities.
A Nice Place to Visit charts how these Rustbelt cities adapted to urban decline and struggled to meet the challenge of becoming an appealing place to visit, as well as good and just communities in which to live.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Urban Decline and the Search for Solutions in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis after 1945
Part I
Heads in Beds and a Box with Docks: Conventions and the Restructuring of the Central City, 1945-1975
2 From Social Center to Convention Center: The Changing Function of Downtown Hotels in Postwar Cincinnati
3 "Fear and Greed": Race, the St. Louis Convention Center, and the Decline of Liberalism in the Postwar City
Part II
Cities Are Fun! Tourism, Image Making, and the "Livable City," 1970-1990
4 City of Champions: Three Rivers Stadium and the Shaping of Pittsburgh's Postwar Image
5 The Accidental Tourist Trap: Image Making and the "Livable City" in Baltimore's Inner Harbor
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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