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The City After Abandonment /

A number of U.S. cities, former manufacturing centers of the Northeast and Midwest, have suffered such dramatic losses in population and employment that urban experts have put them in a class by themselves, calling them "rustbelt cities," "shrinking cities," and more recently &qu...

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Otros Autores: Bates, Lisa K. (Contribuidor), Beauregard, Robert A. (Contribuidor), Deng, Lan (Contribuidor), Dewar, Margaret (Contribuidor, Editor ), Ehrenfeucht, Renia (Contribuidor), Herscher, Andrew (Contribuidor), Kelly, Christina (Contribuidor), Lawson, Laura (Contribuidor), Lowe, Jeffrey S. (Contribuidor), Miller, Abbilyn (Contribuidor), Morrison, Hunter (Contribuidor), Nelson, Marla (Contribuidor), Ryan, Brent D. (Contribuidor), Schatz, Laura (Contribuidor), Schilling, Joseph (Contribuidor), Thomas, June Manning (Contribuidor, Editor ), Thomson, Dale E. (Contribuidor), Vasudevan, Raksha (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
Colección:The City in the Twenty-First Century
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The City After Abandonment
  • Part I. What Does the City Become 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
  • Part II. What Makes a Difference in What Cities Become After Abandonment?
  • 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
  • Part III. What Should the City Become After Abandonment?
  • 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