The city after abandonment / edited by Margaret Dewar and June Manning Thomas.
Looking at the shrinking cities of the Midwest and Northeast as well as New Orleans, urban planning experts examine the conditions of disinvested places and lay out ways policymakers and planners can approach the future through processes and ideas that differ from those applicable to growing cities.
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| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | City in the twenty-first century book series.
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Table of Contents:
- Community gardens and urban agriculture as antithesis to abandonment: exploring a citizenship-land model / Laura Lawson and Abbilyn Miller
- Building affordable housing in cities after abandonment: the case of low income housing tax credit developments in Detroit / Lan Deng
- Detroit art city: urban decline, aesthetic production, public interest / Andrew Herscher
- Decline-oriented urban governance in Youngstown, Ohio / Laura Schatz
- Targeting neighborhoods, stimulating markets: the role of political, institutional, and technical factors in three cities / Dale E. Thomson
- Recovery in a shrinking city: challenges to rightsizing post-Katrina New Orleans / Renia Ehrenfeucht and Marla Nelson
- Missing New Orleans: lessons from the CDC sector on vacancy, abandonment, and reconstructing the Crescent City / Jeffrey S. Lowe and Lisa K. Bates
- What helps or hinders nonprofit developers in reusing vacant, abandoned, and contaminated property? / Margaret Dewar
- Targeting strategies of three Detroit CDCs / June Manning Thomas
- Strategic thinking for distressed neighborhoods / Robert A. Beauregard
- The promise of sustainability planning for regenerating older industrial cities / Joseph Schilling and Raksha Vasudevan
- Rightsizing shrinking cities: the urban design dimenstion / Brent D. Ryan
- Planning for better, smaller places after population loss: lessons from Youngstown and Flint / Margaret Dewar, Christina Kelly, and Hunter Morrison.