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Revitalizing american cities /

Revitalizing American Cities explores the historical, regional, and political factors that have allowed some small industrial cities to regain their footing in a changing economy, and considers strategies cities can use for successful rebuilding.

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Wachter, Susan M.; Zeuli, Kimberly A.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: The city in the twenty-first century
Subjects:
City planning > United States > History > 21st century.
Urban renewal > United States > History > 21st century.
Urban renewal > United States.
Urbanization > United States > History > 21st century.
City planning > United States.
City planning.
Political Science, other.
Political science.
Social sciences.
Urban renewal.
Urbanization > United States.
URBANIZATION.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > City Planning & Urban Development. > City Planning & Urban Development.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812208887
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Summary: Revitalizing American Cities explores the historical, regional, and political factors that have allowed some small industrial cities to regain their footing in a changing economy, and considers strategies cities can use for successful rebuilding.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: 40 illus.
ISBN: 9780812208887
Index Number: HT175
CLC: TU984.712
Contents: Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
Introduction --
CHAPTER 1. The Historical Vitality of Cities /
CHAPTER 2. The Growth of Metropolitan Areas in the United States /
CHAPTER 3. The Relationship Between City Center Density and Urban Growth or Decline /
CHAPTER 4. Central Cities and Metropolitan Areas: Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Employment as Drivers of Growth /
CHAPTER 5. Lessons from Resurgent Mid- Sized Manufacturing Cities /
CHAPTER 6. Revitalizing Small Cities: A Comparative Case Study of Two Southern Mill Towns /
CHAPTER 7. Parallel Histories, Diverging Trajectories: Resilience in Small Industrial Cities /
CHAPTER 8. A Market- Oriented Approach to Neighborhoods /
CHAPTER 9. Transformation Is Messy Work: The Complex Challenge of Spatial Reconfiguration in America s Legacy Cities /
CHAPTER 10. Tactical Options for Stable Properties /
CHAPTER 11. Anchor Institutions in the Northeast Megaregion: An Important But Not Fully Realized Resource /
CHAPTER 12. Fields, Factories, and Workshops: Green Economic Development on the Smaller- Metro Scale /
CHAPTER 13. Promoting Workforce Readiness for Urban Growth /
Afterword /
NOTES --
CONTRIBUTORS --
BIBLIOGRAPHY --
INDEX --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

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