Illustrations

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Before 1900
7. The Valley Setting 13
8. Poughkeepsie Grows from Village to City 27
9. Improvements and Conflicts in the Late Nineteenth Century 43
10. A Diversified Industrial Economy and Society
11. The Cityscape at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 63
12. A New Wave of Immigrants Changes the Citizenry 81
13. Municipal Reform and Urban Planning 99
14. Changes to the Space Economy Between the Wars 121
15. Business and Labor in the 1920s and 1930s 137
16. Depression in FDR’s Home County 151
17. IBM Remakes the Region as Its Largest Employer
18. Technological Revolution Transforms the Region: IBM 171
19. IBM Triumphs with the 360 Mainframe Computer 191
20. The Quest for Inner-City Revitalization: Urban Renewal 207
21. Social Planning: The Model Cities Experiment 229
22. Issues and Causes of the 1960s 243
23. Change in Higher Education in the Valley 259
24. IBM Downsizes, but the Valley Recovers 273
25. Postindustrial Poughkeepsie and the Valley
26. The Nonprofit Sector Grows in Importance 293
27. Main Street Struggles to Return Amid Suburban Sprawl 307
28. Civic Identity and Social Change in the 1990s 323
29. City and Region at the End of the Twentieth Century 337
30. Main Street and the Twenty-first Century Cultural Landscape 353
31. Main Street Revisited 367
32. Notes 379
33. Annotated Bibliography 403
34. Illustration Credits 423
35. Index 425