 | Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Cleveland (Ohio) -- Environmental conditions; Urban renewal -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio -- Cleveland; City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio -- Cleveland; Community development -- E; In Where the River Burned , David Stradling and Richard Stradling describe Cleveland's nascent transition from polluted industrial city to viable service city during the administration of Carl Stokes, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city. David Stradling is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of T he Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State , also from Cornell, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills , and Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 . Richard Stradling is an editor at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. |
