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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The City in the Twenty-First Century
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 57 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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