Screen LibraryThe city after abandonment /
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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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The city in the twenty-first century
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 25 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812207309 |
| Index Number: | HT175 |
| CLC: | TU984.712 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The City After Abandonment -- Chapter 1. Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture as Antithesis to Abandonment: Exploring a Citizenship- Land Model / Chapter 2. Building Affordable Housing in Cities After Abandonment: The Case of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in Detroit / Chapter 3. Detroit Art City: Urban Decline, Aesthetic Production, Public Interest / Chapter 4. Decline- Oriented Urban Governance in Youngstown, Ohio / Chapter 5. Targeting Neighborhoods, Stimulating Markets: The Role of Political, Institutional, and Technical Factors in Three Cities / Chapter 6. Recovery in a Shrinking City: Challenges to Rightsizing Post- Katrina New Orleans / Chapter 7. Missing New Orleans: Lessons from the CDC Sector on Vacancy, Abandonment, and Reconstructing the Crescent City / Chapter 8. What Helps or Hinders Nonprofit Developers in Reusing Vacant, Abandoned, and Contaminated Property? / Chapter 9. Targeting Strategies of Three Detroit CDCs / Chapter 10. Strategic Thinking for Distressed Neighborhoods / Chapter 11. The Promise of Sustainability Planning for Regenerating Older Industrial Cities / Chapter 12. Rightsizing Shrinking Cities: The Urban Design Dimension / Chapter 13. Planning for Better, Smaller Places After Population Loss: Lessons from Youngstown and Flint / Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |