6 records matched your query
04077aam a2200493 i 4500 001 5AD05C8C527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211201010015 008 190823s2020 nyu b 001 0ceng 010 $a 2019037042 020 $a 1438479905 020 $a 9781438479903 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCL $d YDX $d YUS $d PAU $d VFL $d BDX $d JYJ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a nl----- $a nl----- 050 00 $a F129.S8 $b S733 2020 082 00 $a 974.7/66 $2 23 100 1 $a Streissguth, Michael, $e author. 245 10 $a City on the edge : $b hard choices in the American rust belt / $c Michael Streissguth. 264 1 $a Albany : $b Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 271 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Excelsior editions 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index. 520 $a "Why do people stay in a failing city? City on the Edge deals with that very question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, the quintessential rust-belt metropolis which sorely needs the brainpower, sweat, and leadership of citizens if it is to thrive again. Once a booming industrial center with a dynamic civic life and prominence on the world stage, Syracuse has been brutalized by decades of economic depression, absent-minded political leadership, crime, drugs, and population decline. Only its people remain to point toward a better day. The people in this book-a former teenage drug dealer, a refugee from Cuba, an urban farmer, a community activist, and a city elder, each of whom find a way to make life work against formidable odds-suggest there's reason for optimism in struggling cities across middle America. Michael Streissguth spent more than two years interviewing the men and women he calls the Syracuse Five as they turned their ideas, frustrations, and disadvantages into new hope for the city. He contextualizes their extended commentary and storytelling with appealing secondary characters and various episodes, such as a tragic Father's Day riot and the trial that followed, sidewalk fistfights, and a regional consolidation proposal that may slip through the city's hands. He also pays particular attention to the family of one of the Syracuse Five who arrived in town during the late 1940s Great Migration of African American people. Representing a 60-year-long thread, the family's story tracks many of the city's crucial issues: racism, urban renewal in the 1960s, drug abuse, the hope of upward mobility and, most importantly, the question over whether to leave the city or stay"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $t Epilogue : still on the edge. $g 15. $t tragic Father's Day -- $g 2. $t Reimagining a city -- $g 3. $t Coming to Syracuse -- $g 4. $t Refuge in the city -- $g 5. $t No place more vital -- $g 6. $t Barriers everywhere -- $g 7. $t Welcome to America -- $g 8. $t Proceed to go -- $g 9. $t Temptation -- $g 10. $t Crashing -- $g 11. A $t glittering night -- $g 12. The $t trial -- $g 13. $t Burning down -- $g 14. $t Redemption -- $g 15. $t At home -- $t Epilogue : still on the edge. 651 0 $a Syracuse (N.Y.) $x History. 651 0 $a Syracuse (N.Y.) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Syracuse (N.Y.) $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Syracuse (N.Y.) $x Economic conditions. 650 0 $a Deindustrialization $z Syracuse. $z Syracuse. 650 0 $a Deindustrialization $z Lake States $v Case studies. 650 7 $a Deindustrialization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00889862 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a Lake States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245743 651 7 $a New York (State) $z Syracuse. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205293 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423765 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Excelsior editions. 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010726.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5AD05C8C527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search