The City After Abandonment

A number of U.S. cities, former manufacturing centers of the Northeast and Midwest, have suffered such dramatic losses in population and employment that urban experts have put them in a class by themselves, calling them "rustbelt cities," "shrinking cities," and more recently "legacy cities." This decline has led to property disinvestment, extensive demolition, and abandonment. While much policy and planning have focused on growth and redevelopment,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224446X
• ISBN13: 9780812244465
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"