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Book SynopsisFollowing decades of neglect and decline, many US cities have undergone a dramatic renaissance. From New York to Nashville and Pittsburgh to Portland governments have implemented innovative redevelopment strategies to adapt to a globally integrated, post-industrial economy and cope with declining industries, tax bases, and populations. However, despite the prominence of new amenities in revitalized neighborhoods, spectacular architectural icons, and pedestrian friendly entertainment districts, the urban comeback has been highly uneven. Even thriving cities are defined by a bifurcated population of creative class professionals and a low-wage, low-skilled workforce. Many are home to diverse and thriving immigrant communities, but also contain economically and socially segregated neighborhoods. They have transformed high-profile central city brownfields, but many disadvantaged neighborhoods continue to grapple with abandoned and environmentally contaminated sites. As urban cores boom,
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'In this boldly comprehensive book, Carl Grodach and Renia Ehrenfeucht provide a wonderful historical and theoretical overview of urban revitalization, offering at the same time real-life planning and policy tools, data collection techniques and methodologies to help reinvent and reconfigure our cities and suburbs. Urban Revitalization: Remaking Cities in a Changing World is an excellent, fresh and illuminating book that works as truly solid scholarship for the classroom as well as more general reading.'
Bernadette Hanlon, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University, US
Table of ContentsChanging Regions, Local Lives; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The uneven landscapes of urban development in the US; Local Change in a Global Economy; Chapter 3 Urban revitalization in historical perspective; Chapter 4 Urban restructuring, neoliberalism, and the changing landscape of urban revitalization; Chapter 5 Urban politics and development; Section II Strategies, Policies, and Projects; Chapter 6 Reinventing downtown and the urban core; Chapter 7 Revitalizing neighborhoods with affordability and opportunity; Chapter 8 Reconfiguring the suburbs; Chapter 9 Re-envisioning shrinking cities; Chapter 10 Cleaner and greener urban environments; Chapter 11 Rebuilding people-oriented places; Urban Revitalization Methods; Chapter 12 Data sources and community assessment tools; Chapter 13 Field methods; Chapter 14 Public Part Icipation; Looking Forward; Chapter 15 Localism, regionalism, global governance, and beyond;
