Dozens of color maps, together with numerous figures and tables, allow the reader to examine the data with fresh eyes. "Colin Gordon combines intellectual rigor, a compelling argument, and extensive archival research with the latest geographic information system digital mapping techniques. Ethington, University of Southern California Written with empathy, Mapping Decline is a new milestone on the road toward a necessary reckoning of the precise responsibility for the extended urban crises of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."-Philip J. Colin Gordon's use of cartography to visualize this painful pattern of injustice and bad sense is a forceful exemplar for a new kind of history: one told visually as well as textually analyzed spatially as well as chronologically. "A searing indictment of policymakers, realtors, and mortgage lenders for deliberate decisions that sacrificed their own city of St.
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