Charlotte, NC

Author : Heather A. Smith,William Graves

Paperback

Published : Wednesday 30 May 2012

ISBN : 9780820343082

Price : €33.87

Description

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from â?oregional backwaterâ?? to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile centre, Charlotte stands today as one of the nationâ?Ts premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is now an emerging immigrant gateway drawing newcomers from Latin America and across the globe. Once derided for its sleepy, nine-to-five â?ouptown,â?? Charlotteâ?Ts centre city has been wholly transformed by residential gentrification, corporate headquarters construction, and amenity-based redevelopment. And yet, despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southernâ?"globalising, not yet global. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and local experts to examine Charlotte from multiple angles. Their topics include the banking industry, gentrification, boosterism, architecture, city planning, transit, public schools, NASCAR, and the African American and Latino communities. United in the conviction that the experience of this Sunbelt cityâ?"centre of the nationâ?Ts fifth-largest metropolitan areaâ?"offers new insight into todayâ?Ts most pressing urban and suburban issues, the contributors to Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City ask what happens when the external forces of globalisation combine with a cityâ?Ts internal dynamics to reshape the local structures, landscapes, and identities of a southern place.

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