The Future Of American Cities

Author : Katharine L Bradbury,Anthony Downs,Kenneth A. Small
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815719601

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Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities by Katharine L Bradbury,Anthony Downs,Kenneth A. Small Pdf

During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the “death” of our largest cities? Or is urban decline a temporary phenomenon likely to be reversed by high energy costs? This ambitious book tackles these questions by analyzing the nature and extent of urban decline and growth of large U.S. cities. It includes and integrates five substudies. The first examines urban decline and some of its long-run causes, and whether cities that are losing population are performing their economic and social functions less effectively. The second substudy is a multivariate analysis of factors associated with the growth and decline of 121 large U.S. cities and their metropolitan areas. Although its causes vary, urban decline appears closely related to processes that have both upgraded individual households and generated serious problems for city governments and poor neighborhoods. A third substudy shows that neighborhood decline is part of a systematic process related to the influx of poor households into metropolitan areas. Another substudy simulates five antidecline strategies in a single metropolitan area, that of Cleveland, Ohio, and finds that severe decline (occurring in about one-fourth of large U.S. cities) could be slowed, though not stopped by vigorous policies. From the last substudy it emerges that, even if gasoline prices rose to over $2 a gallon, resulting adjustments by commuters and firms would produce little net centralization of future urban development—though many older neighborhoods would probably be rehabilitated. The book concludes that further losses of population and jobs in most severely declining cities are unavoidable in the near future. Even Southern and Western cities, now growing fast, will find their rate of growth slowing as further annexation of surrounding territory is limited. The book ends with two chapters discussing policies designed both to help declining population and job losses and to minimize such loses in other cities.

Author : Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814755836

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Future of American Cities by Moss Pdf

Author : John Arthur Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:972347313

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The Bible and Archaeology by John Arthur Thompson Pdf

Author : Regional S Joint Conference on City,American Society of Planning Officials,American City Planning Institute
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013607724

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Planning for the Future of American Cities by Regional S Joint Conference on City,American Society of Planning Officials,American City Planning Institute Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Alan Ehrenhalt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307474377

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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City by Alan Ehrenhalt Pdf

Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future. In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals how the roles of America’s cities and suburbs are changing places—young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are moving out—and addresses the implications of these shifts for the future of our society. Ehrenhalt shows us how the commercial canyons of lower Manhattan are becoming residential neighborhoods, and how mass transit has revitalized inner-city communities in Chicago and Brooklyn. He explains why car-dominated cities like Phoenix and Charlotte have sought to build twenty-first-century downtowns from scratch, while sprawling postwar suburbs are seeking to attract young people with their own form of urbanized experience.

Author : M. Nolan Gray
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642832549

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Arbitrary Lines by M. Nolan Gray Pdf

It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 133223965X

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Planning for the Future of American Cities, 1935 by Anonim Pdf

Excerpt from Planning for the Future of American Cities, 1935: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on City, Regional, State, and National Planning The first joint conference of all organisations interested in the planning of our Cities, States, Regions, and the Nation was held in the City of Cincinnati during May of 1935. Participating were the American City Planning Institute, the American Society of Planning Officials, the American Civic Association, and the National Conference on City Planning. As a result of action taken at the Conference, the last two organisations have since merged. The desire and intent of the organizers of the American Society of Planning Officials to cooperate with other planning organisations in the interest of better planning were written into the records of the organisation meeting in the following words: "It was the consensus of the meeting that the planning officials present recognized the importance to the planning movement of citizen support for, and public education concerning planning; and that the activities of the organisation of officials should be directed so as not to impede the work of groups such as the National Conference on City Planning, and the American Civic Association. It was suggested that the organisation of officials might well hold its annual meeting jointly with these other groups." The National Conference on City Planning has published the proceedings of the annual planning conferences since 1911. These publications provide a record of planning thought in this country during the past twenty-five years, and trace the advances in planning techniques during that period. Requests have come from many of our members that we continue the record of proceedings. Our book is uniform in size and similar in format to preceding issues of the Conference proceedings. A number of the outstanding papers of this Conference were distributed to its members in mimeographed form by the American Society of Planning Officials the week following the Conference. These published proceedings are therefore being issued to continue the permanent "record." Due to the lateness of this form of publication, the Editing Committee has not returned the comments of the speakers for revision. The Committee hopes that any errors will be overlooked and merely offers as a possible explanation the fact that the record was notable for its omissions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Daniel Brook
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393089240

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A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook Pdf

One of The Washington Post's "Favorite Books of 2013" A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage? In a captivating blend of history and reportage, Daniel Brook travels to a series of major metropolitan hubs that were once themselves instant cities— St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and Mumbai—to watch their “dress rehearsals for the twenty-first century.” Understanding today’s emerging global order, he argues, requires comprehending the West’s profound and conflicted influence on developing-world cities over the centuries. In 1703, Tsar Peter the Great personally oversaw the construction of a new Russian capital, a “window on the West” carefully modeled on Amsterdam, that he believed would wrench Russia into the modern world. In the nineteenth century, Shanghai became the fastest-growing city on earth as it mushroomed into an English-speaking, Western-looking metropolis that just happened to be in the Far East. Meanwhile, Bombay, the cosmopolitan hub of the British Raj, morphed into a tropical London at the hands of its pith-helmeted imperialists. Juxtaposing the stories of the architects and authoritarians, the artists and revolutionaries who seized the reins to transform each of these precociously modern places into avatars of the global future, Brook demonstrates that the drive for modernization was initially conflated with wholesale Westernization. He shows, too, the ambiguous legacy of that emulation—the birth (and rebirth) of Chinese capitalism in Shanghai, the origins of Bollywood in Bombay’s American-style movie palaces, the combustible mix of revolutionary culture and politics that rocked the Russian capital—and how it may be transcended today. A fascinating, vivid look from the past out toward the horizon, A History of Future Cities is both a crucial reminder of globalization’s long march and an inspiring look into the possibilities of our Asian Century.

Author : Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015002608308

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The Future of American Cities by Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Pdf

Author : Alan Ehrenhalt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307474377

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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City by Alan Ehrenhalt Pdf

Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future. In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals how the roles of America’s cities and suburbs are changing places—young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are moving out—and addresses the implications of these shifts for the future of our society. Ehrenhalt shows us how the commercial canyons of lower Manhattan are becoming residential neighborhoods, and how mass transit has revitalized inner-city communities in Chicago and Brooklyn. He explains why car-dominated cities like Phoenix and Charlotte have sought to build twenty-first-century downtowns from scratch, while sprawling postwar suburbs are seeking to attract young people with their own form of urbanized experience.

Author : Vladimir Novotny,Paul Brown
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843391364

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Cities of the Future by Vladimir Novotny,Paul Brown Pdf

This book is developed from and includes the presentations of leading international experts and scholars in the 12-14 July, 2006 Wingspread Workshop. With urban waters as a focal point, this book will explore the links between urban water quality and hydrology, and the broader concepts of green cities and smart growth. It also addresses legal and social barriers to urban ecological sustainability and proposes practical ways to overcome those barriers. Cities of the Future features chapters containing visionary concepts on how to ensure that cities and their water resources become ecologically sustainable and are able to provide clean water for all beneficial uses. The book links North American and Worldwide experience and approaches. The book is primarily a professional reference aimed at a wide interdisciplinary audience, including universities, consultants, environmental advocacy groups and legal environmental professionals.

Author : Matt Slavin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610910286

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Sustainability in America's Cities by Matt Slavin Pdf

"Sustainability" is more than the latest "green" buzzword. It represents a new way of viewing the interactions of human society and the natural world. Sustainability in America's Cities highlights how America's largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between development and environment. As sustainability rises to the top of public policy agendas in American cities, it is also emerging as a new discipline in colleges and universities. Specifically designed for these educational programs, this is the first book to provide empirically based, multi-disciplinary case studies of sustainability policy, planning, and practice in action. It is also valuable for everyone who designs and implements sustainability initiatives, including policy makers, public sector and non-profit practitioners, and consultants. Sustainability in America's Cities brings together academic and practicing professionals to offer firsthand insight into innovative strategies that cities have adopted in renewable energy and energy efficiency, climate change, green building, clean-tech and green jobs, transportation and infrastructure, urban forestry and sustainable food production. Case studies examine sustainability initiatives in a wide range of American cities, including San Francisco, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Milwaukee, New York City, Portland, Oregon and Washington D.C. The concluding chapter ties together the empirical evidence and recounts lessons learned for sustainability planning and policy.

Author : Randall Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317457701

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The Crisis of America's Cities by Randall Bartlett Pdf

An original work on American cities and the ongoing "urban crisis". Using the metaphor of the socially constructed organization of space, Bartlett takes a broad view of the evolution of urban America, from its historical roots to the present; he then examines the way in which current policies have responded to, and affected the organization of space (covering housing, transportation, government and other urban problems). He concludes with a look to the future of American cities, how they will impact and be impacted on by changing commercial and labor markets, by the problems of poverty and cultural change. In an epilogue, he explores possible ways to overcome the "social dilemmas", while recognizing the difficulty of this undertaking. A thoroughly unique perspective to the study of cities, this book is about how space is used in America and how it changes as the "logic of location" evolves historically. Starting with the assumption that cities are fundamentally unnatural" phenomena, it unravels the interactions of technological advances that have made them possible and policies that have given them shape.

Author : Regional Joint Conference On City
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293346993

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Planning for the Future of American Cities by Regional Joint Conference On City Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author : Richard K. Rein
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642831702

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American Urbanist by Richard K. Rein Pdf

"William H. Whyte's curiosity compelled him to question the status quo--whether helping to make Fortune Magazine essential reading for business leaders, warning of "groupthink" in his bestseller The Organization Man, or standing up for Jane Jacobs as she advocated for the vitality of city life and public space. This compelling biography sheds light on Whyte's bold way of thinking, ripe for rediscovery at a time when we are reshaping our communities into places of opportunity and empowerment for all citizens" -- Backcover.