TY - BOOK AU - Brent D. Ryan TI - Design After Decline: how america rebuilds shrinking cities. SN - 9780812223040 AV - HT175 R936 2012 U1 - 307.34 PY - 2012/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - City planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - United States KW - Urban renewal KW - Urban policy N1 - 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 -- N2 - 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 -- ER -