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Smaller cities in a shrinking world : learning to thrive without growth
\"World population growth has slowed to a crawl, and that according to the most sophisticated demographic analysts, the earth's population (outside of sub-Saharan Africa) will begin to decline, not hundreds of years from now, but within the lifetime of many of the people now living on the planet. In this book urban expert Alan Mallach seeks to understand how declining population and economic growth, coupled with the other forces that will influence their fates, particularly climate change, will affect the world's cities, particularly its smaller cities, over the coming decades. Not only will cities' populations decline along with everyplace else, but powerful migration trends will make declines highly uneven. Many cities will decline faster than their nations, while a smaller number of cities, mainly the largest ones, may keep growing, even where their nation's population is in decline. Life on a shrinking planet calls for ways of thinking that are likely to be very different from those we are used to. Mallach suggests a path by which smaller, shrinking cities can thrive in the future, despite population decline and its attendant challenges\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Regenerating America's Legacy Cities
This report explores the challenges of regenerating America's legacy cities and suggestsways to overcome obstacles such as job and population loss. Community and economicdevelopers will learn how to rebuild the core of a city, repurpose vacant land, and moreso they can revitalize their own hometowns.
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The Empty House Next Door
Renowned city planner and housing advocate Alan Mallach presents effective strategiesfor community leaders, local officials, and nonprofits contending with vacant propertiesin the United States. Examples illustrate creative ways to reduce the harm caused byvacant properties, jump-start housing markets in struggling neighborhoods, create thepotential for future revival, and transform vacant properties into community assets.
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America's Urban Future
The headlines about cities celebrating their resurgence—with empty nesters and Millennials alike investing in our urban areas, moving away from car dependence, and demanding walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods. But, in reality, these changes are taking place in a scattered and piecemeal fashion. While areas of a handful of cities are booming, most US metros continue to follow old patterns of central city decline and suburban sprawl. As demographic shifts change housing markets and climate change ushers in new ways of looking at settlement patterns, pressure for change in urban policy is growing. More and more policy makers are raising questions about the soundness of policies that squander our investment in urban housing, built environment, and infrastructure while continuing to support expansion of sprawling, auto-dependent development. Changing these policies is the central challenge facing US cities and metro regions, and those who manage them or plan their future.
In America's Urban Future, urban experts Tomalty and Mallach examine US policy in the light of the Canadian experience, and use that experience as a starting point to generate specific policy recommendations. Their recommendations are designed to help the US further its urban revival, build more walkable, energy-efficient communities, and in particular, help land use adapt better to the needs of the aging population. Tomalty and Mallach show how Canada, a country similar to the US in many respects, has fostered healthier urban centers and more energy- and resource-efficient suburban growth. They call for a rethinking of US public policies across those areas and look closely at what may be achievable at federal, state, and local levels in light of both the constraints and opportunities inherent in today's political systems and economic realities.
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The divided city : poverty and prosperity in urban America
Who really benefits from urban revival?Cities, from trendy coastal areas to the nation's heartland, are seeing levels of growth beyond the wildest visions of only a few decades ago.But vast areas in the same cities house thousands of people living in poverty who see little or no new hope or opportunity.
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The Changing American Neighborhood
The Changing American Neighborhood
argues that the physical and social spaces created by
neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being
of twenty-first-century Americans and their communities .
Taking a long historical view, this book explores the many
dimensions of today's neighborhoods, the forms they take, the
forces and factors influencing them, and the people and
organizations trying to change them.
Challenging conventional interpretations of neighborhoods and
neighborhood change, Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom adopt a broad,
inter-disciplinary perspective that shows how neighborhoods are
messy, complex systems, in which change is driven by constant
feedback loops that link social, economic and physical conditions,
each within distinct spatial and political contexts. The
Changing American Neighborhood seeks to understand
neighborhoods and neighborhood change not only for their own
importance, but for the insights they offer to help guide peoples'
efforts sustaining good neighborhoods and rebuilding struggling
ones.
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