Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

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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 Acknowledgments 263 ...