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Index Page numbers in italics indicate figures and tables. 5 in 5 Initiative, 181 8 Mile Road neighborhood (Detroit), 64 abandoned housing and sites: artistic additions to, 187, 188; ‘‘blotting’’ phenomenon and, 186, 187, 194; of Charlotte Gardens, 40; hopes for, 224; and housing types, 50; in Jefferson-Chalmers area, 93–94, 95, 116–17; landscape ideals applied to, 189–90; landscape urbanism and, 193–94; ‘‘missing’’ or ‘‘broken teeth’’ streets in, 60, 61; in North Philadelphia, 81–83; origin and long-term effects of, 58, 60, 60–61; Philadelphia map of, 62; population losses and, 45–46; shrinking cities’ current level of, 179–80; urban renewal mixed with, 84–85, 95–96, 113–15; vision absent for development of, 126–27, 179–83. See also urban renewal clearances Adams, Anthony: on Jefferson Village, 117, 118; Victoria Park development of, 99, 101, 103, 105, 108; Victoria Woods proposal of, 116 advocacy planning, 19 African Americans: displacement of, 71, 72; emerging middles class of, 101, 107–8; high-quality housing for, 171–72; housing aspirations of, 140; migrations and opportunities for, 89, 91; mortgage foreclosures and, 92–94. See also racial transition AIA Guide to New York, 29, 193 APM (Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha), 133, 168–69, 172, 181 Archer, Dennis: housing condemnation of, 87, 88, 118; Jefferson Village fiasco of, 117–20; marginal political capacity of, 177; small-scale developments under, 207; use of subsidies for development under, 110, 112 architects: design revolution against Modernism , 11, 12, 13–14, 15, 16, 30–33; Modernism associated with, 17–19; Modernism critiqued by, 9; planners separated from, 19–20, 33; urban policy as backwater for, 8–9, 196. See also urban design architecture. See housing types; Modernism and High Modernism; Postmodernism; urbanism art in semi-abandoned sites, 187, 188 Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM), 133, 168–69, 172, 181 asset-based planning concept, 184 automobile industry: decentralization of industry , 67; deindustrialization of, 91; plant construction in, 89, 207. See also Detroit automobiles: decentralized retail developments and, 123, 124–25; abandoned, 180; row-house developments geared toward, 139, 142, 142–43, 143, 146; twin, conjoined single family houses and, 148, 148, 149, 155, 155, 157–58, 162, 163, 164; zeilenbau housing and, 138. See also suburbanstyle design Avenue of the Arts (Philadelphia), 130 Bacon, Edmund: areas of Northeast Philadelphia designed by, 55–56; expertise of, 195; Society Hill project of, 80, 212–13; success of, 177, 185, 196; unusual redevelopment approach of, 78–79, 81–82, 129; ‘‘used house’’ program under, 81; Western Center City redevelopment under, 54 Ball, Donald, 14, 16 Baltimore: housing stock losses in, 46, 47; housing types in, 50, 51; market-based 246 Index Baltimore (continued) urban design and, 35–36; population losses of (moderate persistent loser), 41, 42, 43, 44; row houses of, 77, 138; as shrinking city, x Banham, Reyner, 189, 214–16 Barbican development (London), 1 Barcelona Olympics-era improvements (Spain), 175 Bauhaus design. See zeilenbau (rows of buildings ) housing blocks Better Neighborhoods Act (1974), 145 Bing, Dave, 109, 182, 206 BKP (Buell Kratzer Powell), 167 Blessing, Charles, 78, 87, 195 ‘‘blotting’’ phenomenon, 186, 187, 194 Bolger, Rory, 90–91 Boston: federal redevelopment funding in, 25; household size change in, 49; housing condemnation in, 20–21, 114; housing stock increases in, 46, 46–47; inelastic municipal boundaries of, 43–44; innovative design of Government Center in, 195; population density of, 44, 45; population recovery of, 41, 42, 43; postrenewal urban design approach in, x, xi, 35 Brazil: Brasilia, 175; Rio de Janeiro, FavelaBairro plan, 175 Bronx. See Charlotte Gardens; South Bronx Brown, Byron, 181 Buell Kratzer Powell (BKP, firm), 167 Buffalo: demolition-based initiative of, 181, 182, 183; palliative planning for, 205; poverty level unchanged in, 185; as shrinking city, x Cabrini-Green public housing (Chicago), 35, 210 Cadillac Plant (Detroit), 124 Cambridge Plaza public housing (Lower North Philadelphia), 141, 170, 178 Camden (N.J.), xi, 51 Canfield Lofts (Detroit), 123 Carley, Garry: on attached garages, 99, 123; persistence of, 109; Victoria Park development of, 98–99, 101, 103, 105–8; Victoria Woods proposal of, 116 Caro, Robert, 18, 21–22, 32, 35 Carter, Jimmy, 24–25 Cassway Albert (firm), 162–63 CCD (Center City District, Philadelphia), 130–31 CDBGs (Community Development Block Grants), 6–7, 88, 106, 126, 150 Cecil B. Moore Avenue (Philadelphia), 77, 129–30, 161 Cecil B. Moore Homeownership Zone (North Philadelphia): context of, 77, 129– 30, 161; design of, 164–66, 195; design precedent...

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