PPRC News

St. Louis's
Metro-morphosis
is Documented in
New Book

On July 20, St. Louis Metromorphosis: Past Trends and Future Directions hit the bookshelves. Produced by PPRC in partnership with the Missouri Historical Society, 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

On August 31, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reviewed St. Louis Metromorphosis. >> Read review

The book is available at the bookstores at UM-St. Louis and the Missouri History Museum. To obtain a copy, you may also send an email to pprc@umsl.edu