Mapping America's Legacy Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping America's Legacy Cities write by J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City; School of Architecture - City College of New York. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Mapping America's Legacy Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mapping Decline
Mapping Decline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Decline write by Colin Gordon. This book was released on 2014-09-12. Mapping Decline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.
Rebuilding the American City
Rebuilding the American City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebuilding the American City write by David Gamble. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Rebuilding the American City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns—yet were implemented during the tumultuous start of the 21st century. The book presents five paradigms for redevelopment and a range of perspectives on the complexities, successes and challenges inherent to rebuilding American cities today. Rebuilding the American City is essential reading for practitioners and students in urban design, planning, and public policy looking for diverse models of urban transformation to create resilient urban cores.
Legacy Cities
Legacy Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legacy Cities write by J. Rosie Tighe. This book was released on 2019-06-13. Legacy Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Legacy cities, also commonly referred to as shrinking, or post-industrial cities, are places that have experienced sustained population loss and economic contraction. In the United States, legacy cities are those that are largely within the Rust Belt that thrived during the first half of the 20th century. In the second half of the century, these cities declined in economic power and population leaving a legacy of housing stock, warehouse districts, and infrastructure that is ripe for revitalization. This volume explores not only the commonalities across legacy cities in terms of industrial heritage and population decline, but also their differences. Legacy Cities poses the questions: What are the legacies of legacy cities? How do these legacies drive contemporary urban policy, planning and decision-making? And, what are the prospects for the future of these cities? Contributors primarily focus on Cleveland, Ohio, but all Rust Belt cities are discussed.
Reinventing America's Legacy Cities
Reinventing America's Legacy Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reinventing America's Legacy Cities write by . This book was released on 2011. Reinventing America's Legacy Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
