Ryan, Brent D.

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.

9780812206586


Urban renewal--United States.
City planning--United States.
Land use, Urban--United States.
Urban policy--United States.


Electronic books.

HT175 .R93 2012

307.3/4160973