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Brent D. Ryan

Design After Decline: how america rebuilds shrinking cities. / txt Brent D. Ryan - 1st. edition - ix, 261 p. ill. ; map ; 23 cm book

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
Preface ix --
Chapter 1 “ The Burden Has Passed” Urban Design After Urban Renewal 1 --
Chapter 2 Shrinkage or Renewal? The Fate of Older Cities , 1950 – 90 37 --
Chapter 3 “ People Want These Houses “ : The Suburbanization of Detroit 84 --
Chapter 4 “ Another Tradition in Planning “ The Suburbanization of North Philadelphia 128 --
Chapter 5 Toward Social Urbanism for Shrinking Cities 174 --
Notes 225 --
Works Cited 227 --
Index 245 --
Acknowledgements 263 --


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 --

ISBN: 9780812223040

Subjects--Topical Terms:
City planning
Land use, Urban
Urban renewal
Urban policy

LC Class. No.: HT175 / R936 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 307.34 / 160973