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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright ; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Emergence of the Majority-Black/Black-Run City; The Percentage of Blacks; 2. The Evolution of Gary; The Election of Richard Gordon Hatcher; NIS and Downtown Rebuilding; The ""High"" Years of the Hatcher Administration; 3. External Constraints on Planning and Development; Gary's Unique Constraints; Some Faults of the Hatcher Administration; 4. Getting Started; The Election of Katie Hall; Serious Problems Come to the Surface; The Study Group; The 1983 Democratic Primary. |
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The Study Group Reports5. The Comprehensive Plan of 1986; Preparing the Work Program; Issues during the Planning Process; Finished Product; The Plan Adoption Process; 6. Metrolake-Racism or Good Government?; White Attempts to Regain Political Control; The Indiana Legislative Council; The Lake County Government Study; Metrolake Is Announced; SOMETHING NEW IS NEEDED; Analysis of the Lake County Government Study; The Debates with Dr. Harader; Evaluating Metrolake; 7. Changing Pilots During Takeoff; The Airport's Background; The Gary Municipal Airport Development Program of 1977-1978. |
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Hatcher's Overtures to State and Local GovernmentsThe Commission's Report; LACK OF FINANCIAL REPORT STYMIES AIRPORT PROPOSAL; PROMOTIONAL PANEL ADOPTS PLAN FOR GARY AIRPORT; The Election of Thomas Barnes; Barnes Deals with the Airport Issue; Mayor Barnes Picks a New Aviation Authority Board; Daley Enters Third Chicago Area Airport Race; The Gary Airport Status in 1991; Changing Pilots During Takeoff; 8. Implications of the Gary Experience; Types of Majority-Black Cities; Comparing the Hatcher and Barnes Administrations; Myths and Realities. |
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Planning and the Black Community in Majority and Minority EnvironmentsPlanning Strategies for Majority-Black Cities; The Involvement of State Government; Gary, Northwest Indiana, and the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Index. |
| 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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Hatcher, Richard G., 1933-2019.
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Hatcher, Richard G., 1933-2019. |
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City planning -- Indiana -- Gary.
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City planning. |
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Indiana -- Gary. |
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Gary (Ind.) -- Politics and government.
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Gary (Ind.) -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
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Electronic books.
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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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9780813156958 (electronic book) |
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0813156955 (electronic book) |
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