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"Scholars consider the present condition and future prospects of smaller US cities and towns struggling in the face of broad economic and social change. They offer a mix of ground-level analyses and more general examinations of the successes and failures of recent redevelopment policies and offer concrete ideas for local leaders engaged in redevelopment work"--

Small cities --- City planning --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- challenges facing small cities, Job losses in small town, college towns, small cities in the rust belt, regional economics, Bessemer, Cleveland.

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This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, Neon Wasteland shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.

Sex industry --- Women dancers --- Women --- Self-perception in women --- Femininity --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Family relationships --- Northeastern States --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- abuse. --- adultery. --- anthropology. --- cultural studies. --- economic justice. --- exotic dancers. --- exotic dancing. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- feminized labor. --- fidelity. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gws. --- motherhood. --- needs. --- new york. --- nonfiction. --- performance. --- poverty. --- resilience. --- rust belt. --- self esteem. --- sex work. --- sex workers. --- sexual objectification. --- sexuality. --- social commentary. --- social science. --- social systems. --- strippers. --- topless dancers. --- vulnerability. --- women. --- womens issues. --- womens studies. --- womens work.

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After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one of the world's highest per capita income levels, but is now one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer can afford a lavish mansion, speculators scoop up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson is often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification. Skillfully blending personal memoir, historical inquiry, and interviews with Flint residents, Young constructs a vibrant tale of a once-thriving city still fighting-despite overwhelming odds-to rise from the ashes. He befriends a rag-tag collection of urban homesteaders and die-hard locals who refuse to give up as they try to transform Flint into a smaller, greener town that offers lessons for cities all over the world. Hard-hitting, insightful, and often painfully funny, Teardown reminds us that cities are ultimately defined by people, not politics or economics.

Plant shutdowns --- Urban renewal --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- Closing of factories --- Plant closings --- Plant closures --- Shutdown of factories --- Deindustrialization --- Factories --- Flint (Mich.) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- abandoned houses. --- biography. --- biology. --- business. --- career. --- cheap houses. --- cities. --- city life. --- city living. --- crowded cities. --- cultural studies. --- dangerous cities. --- defiant homeowners. --- detroit. --- economics. --- engaging. --- flint. --- historical. --- history. --- housing. --- interviews. --- michigan authors. --- michigan. --- money. --- oral history. --- page turner. --- personal memoir. --- personal quest. --- preservation. --- realistic. --- rust belt. --- social history. --- social justice. --- social science. --- sociological science. --- sociology. --- urban america. --- urban homesteaders. --- urban planning. --- urban. --- urbanism. --- wealth.

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This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy Guy and the blues scene in Chicago; police work and crime stories in New York City, especially as they converged in the making of the movie The French Connection; and attempts at urban renewal in the classic mill city of Brockton, Massachusetts. Navigating through accrued layers of cultural, economic, and personal history, Rotella shows how stories of city life can be found in a boxing match, a guitar solo, a chase scene in a movie, or a landscape. The stories he tells dramatize the coming of the postindustrial era in places once defined by their factories, a sweeping set of changes that has remade the form and meaning of American urbanism. A native of the Rust Belt whose own life resonates with these stories, Rotella has gone to the home turfs of his characters, hanging out in boxing gyms and blues clubs, riding along with cops and moviemakers, discussing the future of Brockton with a visionary artist and a pitbull-fancying janitor who both plan to save the city's soul. These people make culture with their hands, and hands become an expressive metaphor for Rotella as he traces the links between their individual talents and the urban scenes in which they flourish. His writing elegantly connects what happens on the street to the larger story of urban transformation, especially the shift from a way of life that demanded individuals be "good with their hands" to one that depends on the intellectual and social skills fostered by formal education and service work. Strong feelings emerge in this book about what has been lost and gained in the long, slow aging-out of the industrial city. But Rotella's journey through the streets has its ultimate reward in discovering deep-rooted instances of what he calls "truth and beauty in the Rust Belt."

City and town life --- Deindustrialization --- Work --- Social change --- Boxing --- Police films --- Landscape design --- Blues (Music) --- Blues (Songs, etc.) --- Jive (Music) --- African Americans --- Folk music --- Popular music --- Rhythm and blues music --- Washboard band music --- Design --- Landscape architecture --- Cop films --- Crime films --- Detective and mystery films --- Fighting --- Prize-fighting --- Prizefighting --- Pugilism --- Savate --- Sparring --- Athletics --- Hand-to-hand fighting --- Self-defense --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Industry (Psychology) --- Method of work --- Work, Method of --- Human behavior --- Labor --- Occupations --- Work-life balance --- Industrial capacity --- Industrialization --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Social aspects --- United States --- Social life and customs --- Creative ability --- america. --- american history. --- american urbanism. --- biography. --- blues music. --- boxers. --- brockton massachusetts. --- buddy guy. --- chicago. --- city life. --- cultural history. --- culture making. --- economic development. --- erie pennsylvania. --- historical context. --- historical. --- industry. --- modern history. --- new york city. --- nonfiction. --- personal histories. --- police work. --- postindustrial era. --- regional history. --- retrospective. --- rust belt. --- social skills. --- the french connection. --- urban landscape. --- urban renewal. --- womens boxing.