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Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1935-95

Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany

Pages: 343

Publication Date: January 1998

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Access Number: 10726

Descriptors:
Poverty. Race. Neighborhood development. Segregation. Decisionmaking.

Abstract:
This doctoral dissertation, funded in part by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant #H-5998- SG, examines the relationship between race, local decisionmaking, and neighborhood change in Buffalo, New York, from the 1930s through the 1990s. The author argues that political decisions which have substantially impacted residential neighborhood development have been primarily structured around race. The main policy areas the author examines are public housing, redevelopment, and education. The author also examines the causes and effects of political decisions involving other major development projects as well as the private housing market. The implications of the findings are that rather than being mainly the result of macroeconomic change, the development of concentrated urban poverty has, to a large extent, been shaped by the local political process. The author suggests that public policy should be aimed at reducing residential segregation and contributing to community development.

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