The city after abandonment / edited by Margaret Dewar and June Manning Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dewar, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth), 1948-

Thomas, June Manning.

Series:

City in the twenty-first century book series

The city in the twenty-first century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban renewal--United States.

Urban renewal.

United States.

City planning--United States.

City planning.

Urban policy--United States.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

vi, 388 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]

Summary:

Global Downtowns weaves together rich cultural materials from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore the most iconic space of modern urban imagery and identity. Essays bring diverse downtowns to life while probing deeper shared theoretical and pragmatic questions of power, division, consumption, and conflict. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812244465

081224446X

OCLC:

778828552