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List of Tables, Maps, Illustrations, and Figures
Chapters
1. Symbolism, Self and Urban Environment
Residential Succession: How "Losers" Win
Negro Pioneers and White Flight
Relative Selectability among Minority Invaders
Symbolic History and Self
Symbolic History: Modern and Ancient Foundations
2. Self Selection and Urban Decay
The Social Character of the Manor
3. Woodland to City Neighborhood: 300 Years of Change
Indians, Geology and Transportation
Protecting the Community: Covenant and Zoning
Increasing Community Parameters
4. Invasion and Succession
Attractions
Invaders
Irish and Italian Catholics
Jews
Veterans: Undesirable Heroes
Blacks and the Special Problems of Nonwhite Invaders
Back to City Brownstones: A Confused Invasion
The Invasion Mentality
5. Micrological Aspects of Urban Problems
Involuntary Change: Aging and Death
Attidues of Heirs
Apartment Houses: The Big Change
The Life of a Tenant and a Building
Understanding Intricate Urban Problems
6. Stigma and Self-Image in the Inner City
Achievement and Residentia Movement
The Moral Careers of Inner-City Residents
The Community Paradigm
Implications and Applications
Bibliography
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No matter how hard the residents of the Lefferts Manor tried to keep their community from ever changing, they could not succeed in that impossible task. All neighborhoods change and develop. Change can be slowed or accelerated, but never completely stopped. Trying to control social change, at the grass roots level, is an almost futile endeavor. Neighborhoods that depend on segregation and closure for their survival are bound to be destroyed. The Manor was not an exceptional community because it never changed, but because the modifications there came about more slowly, and more gracefully, than in nearby areas.
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