Main Street to Mainframes : Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie (Excelsior Editions) （2ND）

Flad, Harvey K./ Griffen, Clyde

State University of New York Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 410 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798855806144

Full Description

Traces the history of Poughkeepsie's development from the nineteenth through the twentieth and into the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Main Street to Mainframes is an in-depth study of a small American city and its evolution in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. It describes the economic and social changes, as well as the challenges that face the community. This includes Poughkeepsie's unique history and characteristics, as well as trends that are common in many other communities. The text integrates both social history and spatial analysis, describing the city's physical form through time along with its economic growth, decline, and efforts at renewal post-COVID-19 pandemic. The historical narrative is followed by an appendix containing examples of cultural features unique to Poughkeepsie's past and present, with questions that can serve as discussion points for readers and groups.

As an exploration of a small city that has undergone many of the social and economic problems of much larger urban systems, this book adds important insight into the organic nature of urban systems, including issues of immigration, ethnicity and race, housing and the unhoused, health care, and economic changes in the nation, especially in the growth of the creative and arts-centered economy.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction

Part I. Before 1900

1. The Valley Setting

2. Poughkeepsie Grows from Village to City

3. Improvements and Conflicts in the Late Nineteenth Century

Part II. A Diversified Industrial Economy and Society

4. The Cityscape at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

5. A New Wave of Immigrants Changes the Citizenry

6. Municipal Reform and Urban Planning

7. Changes to the Space Economy Between the Wars

8. Business and Labor in the 1920s and 1930s

9. Depression in FDR's Home County

Part III. IBM Remakes the Region as Its Largest Employer

10. Technological Revolution Transforms the Region: IBM

11. IBM Triumphs with the 360 Mainframe Computer

12. The Quest for Inner-City Revitalization: Urban Renewal

13. Social Planning: The Model Cities Experiment

14. Issues and Causes of the 1960s

15. Change in Higher Education in the Valley

16. IBM Downsizes, but the Valley Recovers

Part IV. Postindustrial Poughkeepsie and the Valley

17. The Nonprofit Service Sector Grows in Importance

18. Hospitals in Transition
19. Main Street Struggles to Return Amid Suburban Sprawl

20. Civic Identity and Social Change in the 1990s

21. City and Region at the End of the Twentieth Century

22. City and Region from the End of the Twentieth Century into the Twenty-First

23. Main Street and the Twenty-First Century Cultural Landscape

24. Landscapes of Social Change: 2010 to 2025

Appendices
A. Redlining: Poughkeepsie's Residential Security Map, 1938
B. Demographic Table: Population Change in Dutchess County, City, and Town of Poughkeepsie
C. "PO'KEEPSIE. MY KEEPSIE", complete poem by Bettina "Poet Gold" Wilkerson
D. Case Example 1 The Usable Past: Land Acknowledgement
E. Case Example 2 The Usable Past: Citizens Create a New Neighborhood Park
F. Case Example 3 The Usable Past: Rowing After the Regatta

Notes
Annotated Bibliography
Index