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Author : Katharine L. Bradbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities written by Katharine L. Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine L. Bradbury
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815710530
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities written by Katharine L. Bradbury and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the 'death' of our largest cities? Or is urban decline a temporary phenomenon likely to be reversed by high energy costs?
Author : John Arthur Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (972 download)
Download or read book The Bible and Archaeology written by John Arthur Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Squires
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877226178
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Chicago written by Gregory Squires and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1989-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite local folklore, Chicago is not always a city that works. No longer the "Hog Butcher for the World," the Windy City has, in recent decades, pursued economic growth at all costs--to the detriment of many of its citizens. This book describes the social, economic, and political costs of the growth ideology and examines the populist response that promises an alternative Chicago. Tracing the city's uneven economic development since World War II, the authors demonstrate how unchecked growth in favor of private enterprise has resulted in severe poverty, unemployment, crime, reduced tax revenues and property values, a decline in municipal services, and racial, ethnic, and class divisiveness. And yet proponents of Daley-style machine politics and the notion of the city as a growth machine still assert that the future of the city depends exclusively on its ability to grow. The victory of Harold Washington is the most visible symbol of the movement toward an alternative Chicago. Naming different priorities and using more participatory tactics, this challenge to the politics of growth promotes development that is responsive to social need, not just market signals. Author note: Gregory D. Squires is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Larry Bennett is Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at DePaul University. Kathleen McCourt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Loyola University of Chicago. Philip Nyden is Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University of Chicago.
Author : Brent D. Ryan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206584
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Design After Decline written by Brent D. Ryan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alan Ehrenhalt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307474372
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City written by Alan Ehrenhalt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future. In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals how the roles of America’s cities and suburbs are changing places—young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are moving out—and addresses the implications of these shifts for the future of our society. Ehrenhalt shows us how the commercial canyons of lower Manhattan are becoming residential neighborhoods, and how mass transit has revitalized inner-city communities in Chicago and Brooklyn. He explains why car-dominated cities like Phoenix and Charlotte have sought to build twenty-first-century downtowns from scratch, while sprawling postwar suburbs are seeking to attract young people with their own form of urbanized experience.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156180351
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The City in History written by Lewis Mumford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1961 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
Author : Robert A. Beauregard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135324158
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Voices of Decline written by Robert A. Beauregard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on how commentators crafted a discourse of urban decline and prosperity peculiar to the post-World War II era. The efforts of these commentators spoke to the foundational ambivalence Americans have toward their cities and, in turn, shaped the choices Americans made as they created and negotiated the country's changing urban landscape. [FOR GEOG/URBAN CATALOGS]Freely crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book uses the words of those who witnessed the cities' distress to portray the postwar discourse on urban decline in the United States. Up-dated and substantially re-written in stronger historical terms, this new edition explores how public debates about the fate of cities drew from and contributed to the choices made by households, investors, and governments as they created and negotiated America's changing urban landscape.
Author : Randall Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457706
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Crisis of America's Cities written by Randall Bartlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original work on American cities and the ongoing "urban crisis". Using the metaphor of the socially constructed organization of space, Bartlett takes a broad view of the evolution of urban America, from its historical roots to the present; he then examines the way in which current policies have responded to, and affected the organization of space (covering housing, transportation, government and other urban problems). He concludes with a look to the future of American cities, how they will impact and be impacted on by changing commercial and labor markets, by the problems of poverty and cultural change. In an epilogue, he explores possible ways to overcome the "social dilemmas", while recognizing the difficulty of this undertaking. A thoroughly unique perspective to the study of cities, this book is about how space is used in America and how it changes as the "logic of location" evolves historically. Starting with the assumption that cities are fundamentally unnatural" phenomena, it unravels the interactions of technological advances that have made them possible and policies that have given them shape.
Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610917812
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Divided City written by Alan Mallach and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.
Author : Russell Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317633601
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Shrinking Cities written by Russell Weaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and numerous processes that contribute to these patterns with broader policy frameworks that have been under consideration to address shrinkage in U.S. cities. A range of methods are employed to answer theoretically-grounded questions about patterns of shrinkage and decline, the relationships between the two, and the empirical associations among shrinkage, decline, and several socio-economic variables. In doing so, the book examines new spaces of shrinkage in the United States. The book also explores pro-growth and decline-centered governance, which has important implications for questions of sustainability and resilience in U.S. cities. Finally, the book draws attention to U.S.-wide demographic shifts and argues for further research on socio-economic pathways of various groups of population, contextualized within population trends at various geographic scales. This timely contribution contends that an understanding of what the city has become, as it faces shrinkage, is essential toward a critical analysis of development both within and beyond city boundaries. The book will appeal to urban and regional studies scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, as well as practitioners and policymakers.
Author : Katharine L. Bradbury
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Final Report to Transportation Funding Agencies on Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities written by Katharine L. Bradbury and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine L. Bradbury
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Final Report to Transportation Funding Agencies on Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities written by Katharine L. Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew E. Kahn
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421440822
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities written by Matthew E. Kahn and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlocking the Economic Potential of Post-Industrial Cities provides a roadmap for how urban policy makers, community members, and practitioners in the public and private sector can work together with researchers to discover how all cities can solve the most pressing modern urban challenges.
Author : J. Rosie Tighe
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986884
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Legacy Cities written by J. Rosie Tighe and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legacy cities, also commonly referred to as shrinking, or post-industrial cities, are places that have experienced sustained population loss and economic contraction. In the United States, legacy cities are those that are largely within the Rust Belt that thrived during the first half of the 20th century. In the second half of the century, these cities declined in economic power and population leaving a legacy of housing stock, warehouse districts, and infrastructure that is ripe for revitalization. This volume explores not only the commonalities across legacy cities in terms of industrial heritage and population decline, but also their differences. Legacy Cities poses the questions: What are the legacies of legacy cities? How do these legacies drive contemporary urban policy, planning and decision-making? And, what are the prospects for the future of these cities? Contributors primarily focus on Cleveland, Ohio, but all Rust Belt cities are discussed.
Author : Justin B. Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136849092
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Sunburnt Cities written by Justin B. Hollander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Central to that demand is the increasing urgency of addressing the issue of urban decline, and the response has almost always been to pursue growth policies to attempt to reverse that decline. The track record of growth policies has been mixed at best. Until the first decade of the twenty-first century decline was assumed to be an issue only for former industrial cities – the so-called Rust Belt. But the sudden reversal in growth in the major cities of the American Sunbelt has shown that urban decline can be a much wider issue. Justin Hollander’s research into urban decline in both the Sun and Rust Belts draws lessons planners and policy makers that can be applied universally. Hollander addresses the reasons and statistics behind these "shrinking cities" with a positive outlook, arguing that growth for growth’s sake is not beneficial for communities, suggesting instead that urban development could be achieved through shrinkage. Case studies on Phoenix, Flint, Orlando and Fresno support the argument, and Hollander delves into the numbers, literature and individual lives affected and how they have changed in response to the declining regions. Written for urban scholars and to suit a wide range of courses focused on contemporary urban studies, this text forms a base for all study on shrinking cities for professionals, academics and students in urban design, planning, public administration and sociology.
Author : Marshall Kaplan
Publisher : Duke Press Policy Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Future of National Urban Policy written by Marshall Kaplan and published by Duke Press Policy Studies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars, policymakers, and journalists explore the condition of America's cities, focusing on the policies of the previous five presidential administrations, and offer suggestions for the future. Karl Marx once said that the point was not to understand the world but to change it. This volume offers little more than vague hopes and good intentions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
