Road to Nowhere : How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore (Historical Studies of Urban America)

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Road to Nowhere : How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore (Historical Studies of Urban America)

Lieb, Emily

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University of Chicago Press（2025/11発売）
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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780226844367

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Traces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore.

In the mid-1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut this Black, middle-class community from stem to stern.

That highway was never built, but it didn't matter—even the failure to build it destroyed Rosemont economically, if not physically. In telling the history of the neighborhood and the notional East-West Expressway, Emily Lieb shows the interwoven tragedies caused by racism in education, housing, and transportation policy. Black families had been attracted to the neighborhood after Baltimore's Board of School Commissioners converted several white schools into "colored" ones, which had also laid the groundwork for predatory real-estate agents who bought low from white sellers and sold high to determined Black buyers. Despite financial discrimination, Black homeowners built a thriving community before the city council formally voted to condemn some nine hundred homes in Rosemont for the expressway, leading to deflated home values and even more predatory real estate deals.

Drawing on land records, oral history, media coverage, and policy documents, Lieb demystifies blockbusting, redlining, and prejudicial lending, highlighting the national patterns at work in a single neighborhood. The result is an absorbing story about the deliberate decisions that produced racial inequalities in housing, jobs, health, and wealth—as well as a testament to the ingenuity of the residents who fought to stay in their homes, down to today.

Introduction: Mary Rosemond's Rosemont

Part I: The Neighborhood
Chapter 1: "Gone White to Negro": How Jim Crow Made Rosemont (1910-1952)
Chapter 2: "The Gigantic Conspiracy": How Rosemont Made Blockbusters Rich (1950s)
Chapter 3: "Elected to Be the Sacrificers": How Rosemont Saw Its Future (1957)

Part II: The Highway
Chapter 4: "As Bad to Us as a Bomb": How the Highway Got Its Map (1957)
Chapter 5: "Crime in the Street": How the Highway Robbed Rosemont (1967)
Chapter 6: "If You Are Dead, You Are Dead": How the Highway Stalled in Rosemont (1968)

Part III: The Aftermath
Chapter 7: "The Rosemont Dilemma": How Baltimore Reinvented Rosemont (1968-1971)
Chapter 8: "Ripped Off": How Rosemont Paid the Price (1972-1975)

Conclusion: Roads to Nowhere

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index