2018

Emily Susan Lieb

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
  • Seattle University
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Project

“The City’s Dying and They Don’t Know Why”: How Baltimore Suffocated a Neighborhood and Sabotaged its Future

Program

ACLS Project Development Grants

Department

Matteo Ricci Institute

Abstract

“The City’s Dying and They Don’t Know Why” is a biography of one West Baltimore neighborhood called Rosemont. By following Rosemont from its development in the progressive era to its near-abandonment in the mid-1970s, the book will explain some of the many ways in which inequality has shaped, and continues to shape, urban places in the United States. The grant will support research and writing trips to Baltimore during the 2018-19 academic year.