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

• Main Author: Hollander, Justin B. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .