Racial politics and urban planning : Gary, Indiana, 1980-1989 /

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Author / Creator:	Catlin, Robert A.
Imprint:	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
Description:	1 online resource (254 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Hatcher, Richard G., -- 1933-2019. Hatcher, Richard G., -- 1933-2019 City planning -- Indiana -- Gary. City planning. Politics and government. Race relations -- Political aspects. Gary (Ind.) -- Politics and government. Gary (Ind.) -- Race relations -- Political aspects. Indiana -- Gary. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239903

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ISBN:	9780813156958 0813156955 1322598118 9781322598116 0813117984 9780813117980
Notes:	English. Print version record.
Summary:	When Richard G. Hatcher became the first black mayor of Gary, Indiana in 1967, the response of Gary's white businessmen was to move the entire downtown to the suburbs, thereby weakening the city core. Meanwhile, white business and institutional leaders in Atlanta, Detroit, and Newark worked with black mayors heading those majority-black cities to rebuild their downtowns and neigh¬borhoods. Why not Gary?Robert A. Catlin, who served as Mayor Hatcher's planning advisor from 1982 to 1987, here analyzes the racial conflicts that tore Gary apart. He asserts that two types of majority-black cities ex.
Other form:	Print version: Catlin, Robert A. Racial Politics And Urban Planning : Gary, Indiana, 1980-1989. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813117980

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