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The Living City: How America's Cities Are Being Revitalized by Thinking Small in a Big Way

ISBN: 978-0-471-14425-0
Paperback
448 pages
September 1994
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THINKING SMALL IN A BIG WAY.

Process Is People.

Savannah's Victorian District.

Gentrification and Displacement.

Winning Skirmishes, Losing Wars.

Understanding the Lessons.

Urban Husbandry: The Economy of Wisdom.

Planned Shrinkage: The Economy of Waste.

Urban Dispersal.

THE CITY REDISCOVERED.

Big Steps, Modestly: The Stories of Ithaca and Corning.

Outside, Inside: Burlington and Pittsfield.

Avoiding Wrong Lessons: The Remnant Complex vs.

Small Improvement, Big Differences.

Culprits.

Streets Have Value.

Old Areas Flourish Anew.

THE TROJAN HORSE: BIG PLANS, BIG MISTAKES.

The Past Over and Over Again.

The Question Is Why: Concrete Bunker or Else.

Epilogue.

Notes.

Index.