Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
1976
Abstract
Even a casual observation of city life causes one to wonder why people huddle so close together. While there are many good things about cities, they also are plagued by overwhelming problems. Every urban problem evolves out of a historical context.In order to understand the impact of racial transition on a southern city, we must be familiar with how southern cities developed historically and how the racial patterns which caused major urban problems emerged.Urbanization in the South was overlooked by scholars for many years since the region was primarily agrarian. Containing 5 urban centers in 1790, the South had 62 urban centers by the outbreak of the Civil War and more than 1200 by the mid-twentieth century. To Lynn Smith concluded that urbanization in the South progressed in the same manner as it did in other regions, but lagged by about fifty years.
Recommended Citation
Bock, Betty Joyce, "An Analysis of the Impact of Racial Transition on the Desirability of Neighborhoods." (1976). All ETDs from UAB. 6928.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/6928
Comments
MA - Master of Arts; ProQuest publication number 31751848