Design After Decline : : How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities / / Brent D. Ryan.
Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities-Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others-began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in...
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Ryan, Brent D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Design After Decline : How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities / Brent D. Ryan. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (280 p.) : 57 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The City in the Twenty-First Century Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. ''The Burden Has Passed'': Urban Design After Urban Renewal -- Chapter 2. Shrinkage or Renewal? The Fate of Older Cities, 1950-90 -- Chapter 3. ''People Want These Houses'': The Suburbanization of Detroit -- Chapter 4. ''Another Tradition in Planning'': The Suburbanization of North Philadelphia -- Chapter 5. Toward Social Urbanism for Shrinking Cities -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities-Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others-began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we will rebuild shrinking cities and what urban design vision will guide their future remain contentious and unknown.In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan reveals the fraught and intermittently successful efforts of architects, planners, and city officials to rebuild shrinking cities following mid-century urban renewal. With modern architecture in disrepute, federal funds scarce, and architects and planners disengaged, politicians and developers were left to pick up the pieces. In twin narratives, Ryan describes how America's two largest shrinking cities, Detroit and Philadelphia, faced the challenge of design after decline in dramatically different ways. While Detroit allowed developers to carve up the cityscape into suburban enclaves, Philadelphia brought back 1960s-style land condemnation for benevolent social purposes. Both Detroit and Philadelphia "succeeded" in rebuilding but at the cost of innovative urban design and planning.Ryan proposes that the unprecedented crisis facing these cities today requires a revival of the visionary thinking found in the best modernist urban design, tempered with the lessons gained from post-1960s community planning. Depicting the ideal shrinking city as a shifting patchwork of open and settled areas, Ryan concludes that accepting the inevitable decline and abandonment of some neighborhoods, while rebuilding others as new neighborhoods with innovative design and planning, can reignite modernism's spirit of optimism and shape a brighter future for shrinking cities and their residents. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) City planning United States. Land use, Urban United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy City Planning & Urban Development. Urban policy United States. Urban renewal United States. Architecture. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. bisacsh Political Science. Public Policy. Urban Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Law & Political Science 9783110413526 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812244076 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206586 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812206586 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812206586/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. ''The Burden Has Passed'': Urban Design After Urban Renewal -- Chapter 2. Shrinkage or Renewal? The Fate of Older Cities, 1950-90 -- Chapter 3. ''People Want These Houses'': The Suburbanization of Detroit -- Chapter 4. ''Another Tradition in Planning'': The Suburbanization of North Philadelphia -- Chapter 5. Toward Social Urbanism for Shrinking Cities -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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