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Design after Decline : How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The City in the Twenty-First Century SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812206586
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Design after DeclineDDC classification:
  • 307.3/4160973
LOC classification:
  • HT175 .R93 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of 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.
Summary: In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan chronicles the fraught and intermittently successful rebuilding of Detroit and Philadelphia in recent decades, concluding that small-scale strategies must give way to a revived combination of innovative urban design and social planning.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of 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.

In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan chronicles the fraught and intermittently successful rebuilding of Detroit and Philadelphia in recent decades, concluding that small-scale strategies must give way to a revived combination of innovative urban design and social planning.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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