Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation” (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)

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Detractors have known as it “The Mistake on the Lake.” It was once once The usa’s “Comeback City.” In step with writer J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic malaise. Believing in Cleveland chronicles how city leaders used imagery and rhetoric to combat and, now and then, accommodate urban and economic decline.

Souther explores Cleveland’s downtown revitalization efforts, its neighborhood renewal and restoration projects, and its fight against deindustrialization. He shows how the city reshaped its image when it was once bolstered by sports team victories. But Cleveland was once not all the time on the upswing. Souther places the city’s history in the postwar context when the city and metropolitan area were divided by uneven growth. In the 1970s, the city-suburb division was once wider than ever.

Believing in Cleveland recounts the long, difficult history of a city that entered the postwar period as The usa’s sixth largest, then lost ground right through a period of robust national growth. But fairly than tell a tale of decline, Souther provides an interesting story of resilience for what some folks known as “The Best Location in the Nation.”


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