But Moore was more interested in learning the details of how the corporate-led Allegheny Conference had worked with public officials to turn the city’s smoke-filled downtown into a modern commercial center. Grove, executive director of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, took Moore on a tour of the city’s redevelopment sites. Hiram Milton, president of Pittsburgh’s Regional Industrial Development Corporation, and John J. Pittsburgh, Hamilton’s steel-producing neighbor to the south, offered them a successful model, and Moore went down to investigate.
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Concerned about industrial decentralization, suburban migration, and central city decline, Hamilton’s municipal officials had replaced the city’s Industrial Development Commission with an Economic Development Commission and initiated a series of urban renewal projects intended to reinvent their drab steel town as a bustling regional service center. In 1968, shortly after Jack Moore became Hamilton, Ontario’s, first economic development commissioner, he took a trip to Pennsylvania. Spaces of Production and Spaces of ConsumptionĬities and the Postindustrial Imagination Postindustrialism and Its CriticsĬhapter 5. Cities and the Postindustrial ImaginationĬhapter 1. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN 978-0-8122-4827-2 Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Universit y of pennsylvania press phil adelphiaĬopyright © 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Remaking the Rust Belt The Postindustrial Transformation of North America A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher. The series aims to explore, in particular, developments that have enduring consequences. The central theme of this series is that politics, law, and public policy-understood broadly to embrace not only lawmaking but also the structuring presence of governmental institutions-has been fundamental to the evolution of American business from the colonial era to the present. Rose, and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Books in the series American Business, Politics, and Society explore the relationships over time between governmental institutions and the creation and performance of markets, firms, and industries large and small. Spaces of Production and Spaces of Consumption -Įpilogue: Cities for Whom? Citation previewĪMER ICAN BUSINESS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY Series editors: Andrew Wender Cohen, Pamela Walker Laird, Mark H. Introduction: Cities and the Postindustrial Imagination.