Design after Decline : How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- The City in the Twenty-First Century Series .
- The City in the Twenty-First Century Series .
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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Urban renewal--United States. City planning--United States. Land use, Urban--United States. Urban policy--United States.