Czerniak, Julia (editor)

Formerly Urban : projecting Rust Belt futures. / txt Julia Czerniak, editor. - First edition. - 207 p. ill. ; (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm. book

Includes Index.

CONTENTS:
6 Foreword David Grahame Shame --
14 Preface and Acknowledgments --
18 Introduction Julia Czerniak --
34 It’s Not (just) the Money Mark Robbins --
50 Cleveland: Medi-Plex City McLain Clutter --
70 Lessons Learned from a Shrinking City: Youngstown 2010 and Beyond Hunter Morrison --
90 Retrenchment, Revitalization, or the Right to the City?: Four Theses Don Mitchell --
106 Strange Attractors: The Catalytic Agency of Form Roger Sherman --
122 Pits and Piles in the Non-Concept City: Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Edward Mitchell --
148 Landscape’s M.O. Julia Czerniak --
166 Detroit, Disabitato, and the Origins of Landscape Charles Waldheim --
184 Underwriting Icicles and Leveraging Sidewalks Marc Norman --
204 Notes on Contributors --
207 Image Credits --
Illustrations:
Opposite, top : Fig. 1 North America at night showing large urban agglomerations --
Opposite, bottom : Fig. 2 The Rust Belt, formerly America’s heartland with ‘’fastest dying cities’’ marked in red --
Fig. 3 Weak market cities in the United States --
Fig. 4. Cleveland, Ohio --
Fig. 5 Youngstown, Ohio --
Fig. 6 Picture the Homeless --
Fig. 7. Flint, Michigan --
Fig. 8. Detroit, Michigan --
Previous page: Fig. 1 The Warehouse, Syracuse, New York, Gluckman Mayner Architects, 2005 --
Fig. 2 Frank R. Lautenberg Rail Station, Secaucus, New Jersey, Brennan Beer Gorman / Architects (architect of record) 2003 --
Fig. 3 The Connective Corridor, Syracuse, New York, 2006 present, showing route, nodes, and cultural institutions --
Fig. 4. Ernie Davis Residence Hall, Syracuse University, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects 2010 --
Fig. 5 UPSTATE --
Fig. 6. Two high performance houses under construction from the From the Ground Up competition: left, R-House, Architecture Research Office and Della Valle Bernheimer; right, TED House, Onion Flats 2010 --
Fig. 7 The Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems, Syracuse, New York. Toshiko Mori Architect with Ashley McGraw Architects 2010 --
Fig. 1 The Cleveland Clinic’s new Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Pavilion, July 23, 2010 --
Fig. 2. Sequence along the Euclid Avenue HealthLine from downtown to the Cleveland Clinic --
Fig. 3. Cleveland’s historic development and infrastructure --
Fig. 4. Vacant land in Cleveland --
Fig. 5. Domestic medical tourism at the Cleveland Clinic --
Fig. 6. International medical tourism at the Cleveland Clinic --
Fig. 7. Spatial neutrality and placelessness --
Fig. 8. Tax abated property in Cleveland --
Opposite : Fig. 9. A sequence of Interior conditioned --
Fig. 10. The Cleveland Clinic --
Fig. 1. 1882 aerial view of Youngstown --
Fig. 2 Demolition of the Ohio Steel Works --
Fig. 3. Map of vacant parcels --
Fig. 4. Map of current land use --
Opposite: Fig. 5. Map of projected land use --
Activists from Picture the Homeless demonstrating for the ‘’right to the city’’ --
Fig. 2 Target Nation : Thinking Out of the Big Box ; Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design, with Greg Kochanowski. Project team: Quyen Luong (project manager), John Chavez, Dustin Gramstead, Brendan Muha, Daniel Phillips, Daniel Poei, Ben Ragle, Stephanie Ragle, Amelia Wong, Andrew Benson --
Fig. 3 TargetPlay: bird’s eye view --
Fig. 4 TargetPlay: ground level view --
Fig. 5 The Attracted Field (with apologies to Rosalind Krauss) --
Fig. 6 Photo of Chris Burden’s Urban Light (2008) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art --
Fig. 7. Photo of Jeff Koons’s Train, proposed for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art --
Top: Fig. 8 ‘’Before’’ view of Playa Rosa showing existing shopping center
Bottom: Fig. 9 Aerial view from the southwest of Playa Rosa : cityLAB / Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban design (J.R. Chavez, Elan Lipson, Joem Sanez, Mike Amaya, Yilip Kang) --
Opposite, top: Fig. 10. Diagram of Playa Rosa stakeholders --
Opposite, bottom: Fig. 11. Diagram of Playa Rosa leveraged infrastructure --
Opposite, top: Fig. 12. View of Playa Rosa looking north from the Police Activities League --
Opposite, bottom: Fig. 13 View of Playa Rosa looking south from Rosa Parks Station --
Above: Fig. 14 Diagram of social justice --
Fig. 1. The Northern or Wyoming Coal Field, from Samuel Harries Daddow and Benjamin Bannan, Coal, Iron, and Oil ; or The Practical American Miner (1866) --
Fig. 2 ‘’The Tragic Scene’’, from Sebastiano Serlio, The Five Books of Architecture --
Fig. 3. ‘’ The Comic Scene’’, from Sebastiano Serlio, The Five Books of Architecture --
Fig.4. ‘’ The Satyric Scene, ‘’from Sebastiano Serlio, The Five Books of Architecture --
Fig. 5 ‘’A Group of Slumless, Smokeless Cities’’, from Ebenezer Howard, Tomorrow : A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) --
Fig.6. Concrete City, 1914 --
Fig. 7 Barry Le Va, By Four Equal Quantities (within for equal spaces:) arranged, rearranged, borrowed, exchanged, 1967 --
Fig. 8. Gerhard Richter, Townscape Madrid, 1968 --
Fig. 9 Earth Conservancy framework plan --
Fig. 10 Perspective of the Thinkbelt --
Above : Fig. 11. Mine Fire Greenhouse grid shell canopy --
Right top: Fig.12 Mine Fire Greenhouse grid shell canopy and taproot heat circulation system --
Right bottom : Fig. 13. Mine Fire Greenhouse program diagram --
Fig. 14. Mine Fire Greenhouse perspective --
Fig.15. Mine Fire Greenhouse plan --
Fig. 1 Route of Rust Belt tour --
Fig. 2. Vacant land (in gray) and topography overlaid, Youngstown, Ohio --
Fig. 3 New streetscapes and event surfaces, downtown Youngstown, Ohio --
Fig. 4 The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line along the Euclid Corridor Cleveland, Ohio --
Fig. 5 Dt. Luke’s and Upper Chester neighborhoods’ commitment to historic density, Cleveland, Ohio --
Fig. 6 Options for living choices offered by the Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) juxtaposed with formely urban neighborhoods, Detroit, Michigan Fig. 7 Successional growth and its aestheticization, Detroit, Michigan --
Fig.7 Successional growth and its aestheticization, Detroit, Michigan --
Fig.8 Spatial leftover as new typology, Detroit, Michigan --
Fig.9 The strrets of the Heidelberg Project, Detroit , Michigan --
Fig. 10 Reclaimed territory of the land bank, Flint, Michigan --
Fig. 2 Loan to value chart --
Fig. 3 Case Shiller home price declines by region --
Fig. 4 Dilapidated and stable properties in Detroit, Michigan --
Fig. 6 A sidewalk ends --
Opposite, top : Fig.7 Aerial photo of land uses, Syracuse, New York --
Opposite, bottom: Fig. 8 Aerial photo of potential linkages, Syracuse, New York --
Above : Fig.9 Roberto Clemente Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania --
Fig.10 Annual household gasoline expenses (2008 gas prices) and housing and transportation costs as percent of income --


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City planning--United States--Congresses.
Deindustrialization--Social aspects--United States--Congresses.
Cities and towns--United States--Congresses.

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