Aaron Cowan is Associate Professor of History at Slippery Rock University and co-director of Slippery Rock University’s Stone House Center for Public Humanities.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Urban Decline and the Search for Solutions in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis after 1945Part IHeads in Beds and a Box with Docks: Conventions and the Restructuring of the Central City, 1945–19752 From Social Center to Convention Center: The Changing Function of Downtown Hotels in Postwar Cincinnati3 “Fear and Greed”: Race, the St. Louis Convention Center, and the Decline of Liberalism in the Postwar CityPart IICities Are Fun! Tourism, Image Making, and the “Livable City,” 1970–19904 City of Champions: Three Rivers Stadium and the Shaping of Pittsburgh's Postwar Image5 The Accidental Tourist Trap: Image Making and the “Livable City” in Baltimore's Inner HarborEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Aaron Cowan is Associate Professor of History at Slippery Rock University and co-director of Slippery Rock University’s Stone House Center for Public Humanities.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Urban Decline and the Search for Solutions in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis after 1945Part IHeads in Beds and a Box with Docks: Conventions and the Restructuring of the Central City, 1945–19752 From Social Center to Convention Center: The Changing Function of Downtown Hotels in Postwar Cincinnati3 “Fear and Greed”: Race, the St. Louis Convention Center, and the Decline of Liberalism in the Postwar CityPart IICities Are Fun! Tourism, Image Making, and the “Livable City,” 1970–19904 City of Champions: Three Rivers Stadium and the Shaping of Pittsburgh's Postwar Image5 The Accidental Tourist Trap: Image Making and the “Livable City” in Baltimore's Inner HarborEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Aaron Cowan is Associate Professor of History at Slippery Rock University and co-director of Slippery Rock University’s Stone House Center for Public Humanities.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Urban Decline and the Search for Solutions in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis after 1945Part IHeads in Beds and a Box with Docks: Conventions and the Restructuring of the Central City, 1945–19752 From Social Center to Convention Center: The Changing Function of Downtown Hotels in Postwar Cincinnati3 “Fear and Greed”: Race, the St. Louis Convention Center, and the Decline of Liberalism in the Postwar CityPart IICities Are Fun! Tourism, Image Making, and the “Livable City,” 1970–19904 City of Champions: Three Rivers Stadium and the Shaping of Pittsburgh's Postwar Image5 The Accidental Tourist Trap: Image Making and the “Livable City” in Baltimore's Inner HarborEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex