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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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"This anthology concerns the economic and demographic changes that have occurred in northeastern Ohio since 1960, but specifically during the 1970s and 1980s when that region's major industries (rubber, steel, automobiles) experienced severe decline. Sixteen chapters reflect on the reasons for industrial restructuring, the implications for population growth and future employment and investment opportunities, and the role of local, state, and national governments in undertaking policies that generate economic activity. Three themes dominate: the centrality of employment in regional development; the relation between economic development and product cycles (and thus the need to introduce new economic activities to the region); and the regional, national, and international constraints on local economic-development initiatives." Choice ... Read more

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In the nineteenth century Cincinnati's historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood was a diverse suburb, but in the twentieth century it became on inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems. As Zane L. Miller and Bruce Tucker point out, however, Over-the-Rhine's history is also the history of planning for both inner-city neighborhoods and big-city downtowns. Beginning in the 1920s, Cincinnati's government and civic leaders explored the entire repertoire of programs considered or implemented in cities throughout the country for such close-in neighborhoods. The first attempts included schemes for comprehensive planning, zoning, slum clearance, redevelopment, and neighborhood rehabilitation. Over-the-Rhine survived this first assault, but at mid-century a new understanding of the city generated different visions of Over-the-Rhine's future and bitter fights for control of that future. While factions fought, the neighborhood deteriorated, and by the 1990s it was one of the poorest and most violent parts of the city. The story ends with a double irony: the adoption of an Over-the-Rhine "urban renewal" plan that endorsed a ghettoish status quo; and the murder of Buddy Gray, the city's premier white community organizer, by a mentally troubled man whom Gray had rescued and befriended. Miller and Tucker look beyond the fight over slums to illuminate other issues in American civilization. They focus on changing conceptions of culture, neighborhood, and community and lay out the consequences of those conceptions for city planning and plan implementation. Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of urban neighborhoods. ... Read more

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Of local historical interest
This book is interesting to local people who want some history on the planning process for this one neighborhood in Cincinnati.Mr. Miller proposes that this history is similar to other cities across the country.Some of the over-arching themes may be similar city to city, but this really is a unique case.

The book is hard to follow, because of all the players involved, and is dry and incomplete.The emphasis is on the plannning process of 1983, and the fight against the historic designation.

For Cincinnati historians or planners only. ... Read more

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Kent, Ohio. Ohio, Portage County, Ohio, Pennsylvania andOhio Canal, Kent City School District, Marvin Kent, KentState University, Kent Free Library, Kent State UniversityAirport, Akron metropolitan area, College town, GreaterCleveland ... Read more

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Edmund Chapman's, Cleveland: Village to Metropolis, was first published in 1964.It is considered the first scholarly overview of the planning and architecture of Cleveland, Ohio, in the period from the city's founding until 1876.This is a reprint of the second edition (1981) of this landmark volume in urban planning/architecture. ... Read more

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This book is an important contribution to the field of American literary studies.This critical study of Sherwood Anderson's most famous and perhaps most widely taught work, "Winesburg, Ohio", treats it as a thoroughly modernist novel examining the aesthetic nature of romantic identity.Author Clarence Lindsay argues that Anderson's famous theory of the Grotesque is a theory of American identity. Each of the small town's grotesques in effect authors a romantic narrative that privileges the self. In trying to live their lives by that narrative, each enacts a romantic selfhood. Each of these romantic selfhoods is an aesthetic enterprise, complicated by all the aesthetic issues relating to artist and audience. Every crisis in the novel is an aesthetic crisis; every comedy, every tragedy is an aesthetic misstep of some sort.Lindsay proposes that all moral issues in Winesburg, Ohio are aesthetic; all aesthetic issues are moral. Winesburg's narrator's careful attention to characters' romantic narratives of self provides an ironic scrutiny of not only the astonishing varieties of American romantic identity but also a painstaking interrogation of a variety of romantic discourses.Anderson's radical formal innovation, the interrelated tale, was the perfect American form, not only allowing for the narrator's "democracy of fascination" with the grotesques' absolutely equal competing singularities but also providing for the comic juxtaposition of these claims on uniqueness, a jostling that subverts the traditional novel's emphasis on the singular individual.This first sustained critical analysis of this American classic restores Anderson to the top rank of American artists, placing him alongside other intense scrutinizers of American romanticism: Hawthorne, Melville, and Hemingway. ... Read more

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This Book of Literary Criticism is a Rare Thing
Lindsay begins his introduction with a personal tone, relating how he discovered the wonders of "Winesburg, Ohio."He then engages in a keenly insightful close reading of various "Winesburg' tales that is theoretically rigorous without being burdened by overdone theoretical jargon.His close attention to the exact word choices present in individual paragraphs and how these undermine the reader's initial, culturally conditioned response to the text results in a brilliantly substantive analysis.For me, Lindsay's book helped me reflect more clearly and deeply on the many ambiguities in Anderson's highly subtle and complex text.Never before have I encountered, for instance, such an illuminating analysis of the interpretively challenging story "Hands."Lindsay's book is a truly unusual instance of contemporary literary criticism--all substance, no fluff, and driven by a sincere human investment in what this text can mean to us as readers. ... Read more

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The Ohio River once symbolized the passage of blacks from slavery to freedom along the underground railroad. Hence, they frequently referred to it as the "River Jordan". Yet in the urban centers along the river's shores, blacks faced racial hostility. Here Joe Trotter examines African American life in the Ohio Valley cities Evansville, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, from the arrival of the first blacks to the Civil Rights movement. 21 photos. 5 maps. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Geographical Analysis, published by Ohio State University Press on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 7435 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Specification of the World City Network.
Author: Peter J. Taylor
Publication: Geographical Analysis (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Volume: 33Issue: 2Page: 181

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Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don’t write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear, direct fashion the authors recount what they have learned from interviewing women imprisoned for killing their children. Readers will be shocked and outraged—as much by the violence the women have endured in their own lives as by the violence they engaged in—but they will also be informed and even enlightened.

Oberman and Meyer are leading authorities on their subject. Their 2001 book, Mothers Who Kill Their Children, drew from hundreds of newspaper articles as well as from medical and social science journals to propose a comprehensive typology of maternal filicide. In that same year, driven by a desire to test their typology—and to better understand child-killing women not just as types but as individuals—Oberman and Meyer began interviewing women who had been incarcerated for the crime. After conducting lengthy, face-to-face interviews with forty prison inmates, they returned and selected eight women to speak with at even greater length. This new book begins with these stories, recounted in the matter-of-fact words of the inmates themselves.

There are collective themes that emerge from these individual accounts, including histories of relentless interpersonal violence, troubled relationships with parents (particularly with mothers), twisted notions of romantic love, and deep conflicts about motherhood. These themes structure the books overall narrative, which also includes an insightful examination of the social and institutional systems that have failed these women. Neither the mothers nor the authors offer these stories as excuses for these crimes.