Design After Decline - How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

Brent D. Ryan is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

List of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. "The Burden Has Passed": Urban Design After Urban Renewal

Chapter 2. Shrinkage or Renewal? The Fate of Older Cities, 1950-90

Chapter 3. "People Want These Houses": The Suburbanization of Detroit

Chapter 4. "Another Tradition in Planning": The Suburbanization of North Philadelphia

Chapter 5. Toward Social Urbanism for Shrinking Cities

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Brent D. Ryan

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Brent D Ryan, Brent D. Ryan
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9780812223040
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2304-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: City in the Twenty-First Centu; The City in the Twenty-First Century; City in the Twenty-First Centu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Soziologie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Politics / Current Events