An Ordinary City Planning for Growth and Decline in New Bedford, Massachusetts /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hollander, Justin B. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Sociology, Urban.; Urban geography.; Urban economics.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban Economics.

This book paints an intimate portrait of an overlooked kind of city that neither grows nor declines drastically. In fact, New Bedford, Massachusetts represents an entire category of cities that escape mainstream urban studies' more customary attention to global cities (New York), booming cities...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Planning for Growth & Decline in America: A Concise History Chapter.-3. Theories of Smart Shrinkage & Smart Growth Chapter
• 4. How Much Change Is Too Much - a Look at the Numbers
• 5. The Legacy of Change: Depopulation and Growth's Impact on New Bedford Today Chapter
• 6. After the Hurricane: Government Responses to Employment and Population Change, 1929-1975 Chapter
• 7. Coming to Terms with Change: Contemporary Policy Responses
• 8.Urban Absorption Chapter
• 9. Conclusion. .