Rebuilding the American City: Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns?yet were implemented during the tumultuous start of the 21st century. The book presents five paradigms for redevelopment and a range of perspectives on the complexities, successes and challenges inherent to rebuilding American cities today. Rebuilding the American City is essential reading for practitioners and students in urban design, planning, and public policy looking for diverse models of urban transformation to create resilient urban cores.Additional ISBNs9781138798137, 9781315756738, 9781317631040, 9781317631064Rebuilding the American City: Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core 1st Edition is written by David Gamble; Patty Heyda and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Rebuilding the American City are 9781317631057, 1317631056 and the print ISBNs are 9781138798144, 1138798142. Additional ISBNs include 9781138798137, 9781315756738, 9781317631040, 9781317631064.