The City After Abandonment

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CONTENTS Introduction: The City After Abandonment 1 I. WHAT DOES THE CITY BECOME AFTER ABANDONMENT? Chapter 1. Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture as Antithesis to Abandonment: Exploring a Citizenship-Land Model Laura Lawson and Abbilyn Miller 17 Chapter 2. Building Affordable Housing in Cities After Abandonment: The Case of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in Detroit Lan Deng 41 Chapter 3. Detroit Art City: Urban Decline, Aesthetic Production, Public Interest Andrew Herscher 64 II. WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN WHAT CITIES BECOME AFTER ABANDONMENT? Chapter 4. Decline-Oriented Urban Governance in Youngstown, Ohio Laura Schatz 87 Chapter 5. Targeting Neighborhoods, Stimulating Markets: Th e Role of Political, Institutional, and Technical Factors in Th r ee Cities Dale E. Th om son 104 Chapter 6. Recovery in a Shrinking City: Challenges to Rightsizing Post-Katrina New Orleans Renia Ehrenfeucht and Marla Nelson 133 vi Contents Chapter 7. Missing New Orleans: Lessons from the CDC Sector on Vacancy, Abandonment, and Reconstructing the Crescent City Jeffrey S. Lowe and Lisa K. Bates 151 Chapter 8. What Helps or Hinders Nonprofit Developers in Reusing Vacant, Abandoned, and Contaminated Property? Margaret Dewar 174 Chapter 9. Targeting Strategies of Three Detroit CDCs June Manning Th om as 197 III. WHAT SHOULD THE CITY BECOME AFTER ABANDONMENT? Chapter 10. Strategic Thinking for Distressed Neighborhoods Robert A. Beauregard 227 Chapter 11. The Promise of Sustainability Planning for Regenerating Older Industrial Cities Joseph Schilling and Raksha Vasudevan 244 Chapter 12. Rightsizing Shrinking Cities: Th e Urban Design Dimension Brent D. Ryan 268 Chapter 13. Planning for Better, Smaller Places After Population Loss: Lessons from Youngstown and Flint Margaret Dewar, Christina Kelly, and Hunter Morrison 289 Notes 317 List of Contributors 373 Index 379 Ac kno w ledg men ts 387 ...