Author: William Graves
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's 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 “uptown,” Charlotte's center city has been wholly transformed by residential gentrification, corporate headquarters construction, and amenity-based redevelopment. And yet, despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southern—globalizing, 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 city—center of the nation's fifth-largest metropolitan area—offers new insight into today's 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 globalization combine with a city's internal dynamics to reshape the local structures, landscapes, and identities of a southern place.
Charlotte, NC
Author: William Graves
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's 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 “uptown,” Charlotte's center city has been wholly transformed by residential gentrification, corporate headquarters construction, and amenity-based redevelopment. And yet, despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southern—globalizing, 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 city—center of the nation's fifth-largest metropolitan area—offers new insight into today's 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 globalization combine with a city's internal dynamics to reshape the local structures, landscapes, and identities of a southern place.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's 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 “uptown,” Charlotte's center city has been wholly transformed by residential gentrification, corporate headquarters construction, and amenity-based redevelopment. And yet, despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southern—globalizing, 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 city—center of the nation's fifth-largest metropolitan area—offers new insight into today's 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 globalization combine with a city's internal dynamics to reshape the local structures, landscapes, and identities of a southern place.
Uptown Charlotte
Author: Central Charlotte Association (Charlotte, N.C.)
Publisher:
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Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Center City Charlotte Urban Design Plan
Author: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission
Publisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Plan also contains information on: "Uptown Charlotte"; plazas; central business district revitalization.
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Plan also contains information on: "Uptown Charlotte"; plazas; central business district revitalization.
Urban Open Space in Uptown Charlotte
Author: Deborah E. Ryan
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Category : Center City (Charlotte, N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Examines conditions and potential for an urban park in the center of Charlotte, N.C.
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Category : Center City (Charlotte, N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Examines conditions and potential for an urban park in the center of Charlotte, N.C.
Uptown Charlotte Mixed Use Development
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Category : Centers for the performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Centers for the performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Legacy: Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Pamela Grundy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The stories told by many generations of Charlotte's African American residents mingle strength and hardship, accomplishment and setback, joy and pain. Through slavery, through war, through Jim Crow segregation and into the 21st century Black residents from all walks of life have played essential roles in making Charlotte the city it is today. Everyone needs to know this history.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The stories told by many generations of Charlotte's African American residents mingle strength and hardship, accomplishment and setback, joy and pain. Through slavery, through war, through Jim Crow segregation and into the 21st century Black residents from all walks of life have played essential roles in making Charlotte the city it is today. Everyone needs to know this history.
Secret Charlotte: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Author: Sarah Crosland
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
ISBN: 1681060698
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Where in Charlotte can you… - get up-close with the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane? - indulge in conspiracy theories about occult symbols in public murals? - see a giant head sculpture by a notorious Czech artist? - eat something called burgushi? - hear a parking garage that sings? - watch a giant dragon blow smoke? - visit the grave of cojoined twin sisters who were the inspiration for a Broadway musical? Whether you’re riding at top speeds around the 24-degree bank of a NASCAR track turn, exploring the history of Charlotte’s gold rush and the 17-pound nugget that started it all, or eating ice cream at a Dairy Queen that’s a designated historic site, it’s impossible to be bored in the Queen City with a copy of Secret Charlotte: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. From delightful surprises to hair-raising theories, in these pages you’ll find answers to the questions around town you didn’t even know you had. Filled with fascinating—and often bizarre—stories about the locales that define Charlotte’s culture and history, this is the city’s ultimate scavenger hunt.
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
ISBN: 1681060698
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Where in Charlotte can you… - get up-close with the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane? - indulge in conspiracy theories about occult symbols in public murals? - see a giant head sculpture by a notorious Czech artist? - eat something called burgushi? - hear a parking garage that sings? - watch a giant dragon blow smoke? - visit the grave of cojoined twin sisters who were the inspiration for a Broadway musical? Whether you’re riding at top speeds around the 24-degree bank of a NASCAR track turn, exploring the history of Charlotte’s gold rush and the 17-pound nugget that started it all, or eating ice cream at a Dairy Queen that’s a designated historic site, it’s impossible to be bored in the Queen City with a copy of Secret Charlotte: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. From delightful surprises to hair-raising theories, in these pages you’ll find answers to the questions around town you didn’t even know you had. Filled with fascinating—and often bizarre—stories about the locales that define Charlotte’s culture and history, this is the city’s ultimate scavenger hunt.
Historic Guide to Uptown Charlotte, NC
Author: Mary Norton Kratt
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Historic Charlotte County
Author: Douglas Houck
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377337
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377337
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A Walking Tour of Uptown Charlotte
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Category : Charlotte (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Charlotte (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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