| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City. By Howard Gillette Jr. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xvi, 323 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3897-4.)

Focusing on Camden, New Jersey, after its "fall" from vital, industrial working-class city to postindustrial despair, Howard Gillette Jr.'s work picks up where most historical literature on the urban crisis stops. It traces and assesses the myriad redevelopment efforts launched since the end of the Great Society and why they have all failed to make Camden rise again. He uses history to illuminate the enormous, contemporary political and social barriers to a revitalization that would move beyond the trickle-down promises of physical redevelopment plans designed to attract middle- and upper-income visitors and residents to the city, to efforts that would reverse the fortunes of Camden's overwhelmingly poor majority. Such genuine renewal remains a chimera because of post-1960s urban white flight, racial isolation, poverty concentration, tax-base erosion, a shift from public to private investment, and the strength of suburban interests. Gillette favors the policy initiatives of today's "new regionalists" who seek cooperation between cities and suburbs to end the disparities of wealth and power between the two, but understands precisely the forces arrayed against such plans.

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