Revitalizing American cities / edited by Susan M. Wachter and Kimberly A. Zeuli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wachter, Susan M.

Zeuli, Kimberly.

Series:

City in the twenty-first century book series.

The city in the twenty-first century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban renewal--United States--History--21st century.

Urban renewal.

City planning--United States--History--21st century.

City planning.

Urbanization--United States--History--21st century.

Urbanization.

Urban renewal--United States.

City planning--United States.

Urbanization--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Small and midsized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distribution of manufactured products. But as the twentieth century brought cheaper transportation and faster communication, these cities were hit hard by population losses and economic decline. In the twenty-first century, many former industrial hubs—from Springfield to Wichita, from Providence to Columbus—are finding pathways to reinvention. With innovative urban policies and design, once-declining cities are becoming the unlikely pioneers of postindustrial urban revitalization. Revitalizing American Cities explores the historical, regional, and political factors that have allowed some industrial cities to regain their footing in a changing economy. The volume discusses national patterns and drivers of growth and decline, presents case studies and comparative analyses of decline and renewal, considers approaches to the problems that accompany the vacant land and blight common to many of the country's declining cities, and examines tactics that cities can use to prosper in a changing economy. Featuring contributions from scholars and experts of urban planning, economic development, public policy, and education, Revitalizing American Cities provides a detailed, illuminating look at past and possible reinventions of resilient American cities. Contributors: Frank S. Alexander, Eugenie L. Birch, Paul C. Brophy, Steven Cochrane, Gilles Duranton, Sean Ellis, Kyle Fee, Edward Glaeser, Daniel Hartley, Yolanda K. Kodrzycki, Sophia Koropeckyj, Alan Mallach, Ana Patricia Muñoz, Jeremy Nowak, Laura W. Perna, Aaron Smith, Catherine Tumber, Susan M. Wachter, Kimberly A. Zeuli.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2013).

ISBN:

9780812208887

0812208889

OCLC:

865565036