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from PPRC: St. Louis Plans -- The Real and the Ideal St. Louis
The third book in the St. Louis Metromorphosis series just hit
the book shelves. "St. Louis Plans: The Ideal and the Real
St. Louis" was produced by PPRC in partnership with the Missouri
Historical Society, and edited by PPRC director Mark Tranel.
St. Louis has a rich history of planning that has not been previously
documented. The plans that have been made over the years by public,
nonprofit and civic agencies have given the St. Louis metropolitan
area its shape and direction. Plans are the basis of the physical
and built environment as well as the activities and agendas that
are carried out within this environment. This volume reviews the
history of various aspects of planning and provides insight into
planning successes and challenges. It presents a novel exploration
of the St. Louis region, one that considers the blueprints for
the urban area as it exists today. Planner Harlan Bartholomew
once said that “the objective of a city plan is the improvement
of living conditions, the stimulation of prosperity, and the creation
of intangible values in added health, comfort, convenience, and
community well-being." This book illustrates the ways that
future plans can provide a path to those “intangible values”.
View book contents here.
Order your copy by calling 314.516.5277, or email pprc@umsl.edu.
You can also send a check for $22.95, made payable to the Public
Policy Research Center, to PPRC, attn: Becky, University of Missouri-St.
Louis, One University Boulevard 362SSB, St. Louis, MO 63121.
Paperback:
520 pages
Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press
(December 3, 2007)
ISBN-10: 1883982618
Cost: $22.95
 In
2006, Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future
of St. Louis hit the bookshelves. Produced by PPRC
in partnership with the Missouri Historical Society, and edited
by Richard Rosenfeld, it is the second book in the St. Louis Metromorphosis
series.
In this volume, several scholars address the challenges St. Louis
faces—segregation, crime, and stagnant growth—while
also focusing on the promising but often-overlooked aspects of
the city, its “hidden assets.”
St. Louis has long been plagued by problems. Annual statistics
grimly highlight population loss and crime rates, deteriorating
public services, poverty; class segregation and political fragmentation.
Based on standard measures, the region’s future appears
dim. However, the authors argue that the above indicators are
not the only ones by which the present and possible future of
St. Louis should be assessed. Both the central city and the surrounding
region contain many hidden assets that, if effectively nurtured
and promoted, augur a brighter future for the St. Louis metropolitan
area. Each chapter in Hidden Assets contains an essay
that highlights concrete attractions, such as the city’s
major medical complex, its excellent and diverse public and private
schools, and its robust blues music tradition, as well as more
abstract features, such as its historic relationship with the
mighty Mississippi. This volume explores the implications of St.
Louis’s idiosyncrasies for sustainable long-term growth
in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
The book is available at Borders and Barnes and Noble, the UM-St.
Louis bookstore and the Missouri History Museum's Louisiana Purchase
gift shop (314-454-3172). You may also send a check for $22.95,
made payable to the Public Policy Research Center, to PPRC, Attn:
Becky, University of Missouri-- St. Louis, 362 SSB, One University
Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63121. Or email us at pprc@umsl.edu
 In
2004, St. Louis Metromorphosis: Past Trends and Future
Directions hit the bookshelves. Produced by PPRC in
partnership with the Missouri Historical Society, and edited by
E. Terrence Jones and Brady Baybeck, it is the first in a series
of volumes that documents and analyzes economic, social, political
and historical aspects of the St. Louis metropolitan area.
St. Louis Metromorphosis offers a sophisticated analysis
of what has been happening within the St. Louis metropolitan area
over the last five decades. Using data sets extending back as long
as a century, twelve scholars from four area universities, including
UM-St. Louis, analyze key policy issues and trends. One chapter
by PPRC Director Mark Tranel elucidates the implications of shifts
in jobs from manufacturing to service, and examines which enterprises
have flourished and which have withered. In another chapter Scott
Decker, Curators Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at
UM-St. Louis, writes on “a century of homicide.” He
explores the ways ethnicity, neighborhood composition, and population
have influenced the number and nature of murders in St. Louis. View
book contents here
The book is available at the UM-St. Louis bookstore and the Missouri
History Museum's gift shop. You may also send a check for $22.95,
made payable to the Public Policy Research Center, to PPRC, University
of Missouri-- St. Louis, 362 SSB, One University Boulevard, St.
Louis, MO, 63121. Or email us at pprc@umsl.edu
 Ashgate
Publishing released Metropolitan Governance without
Metropolitan Government, which examines
in detail the governance of metropolitan regions in the United States,
Canada and Mexico and provides an overview of the regional governance
experience in several European cities. Edited by Don Phares, a faculty
fellow at PPRC and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University
of Missouri-St. Louis, the volume considers specific cities in the
U.S. and Canada and examines how they have dealt with the issues
of providing services in a metropolitan context, either through
formal government structure or informal governance arrangements.To
order, visit the website www.ashgate.com
or call 800-535-9544.
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