Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The City After Abandonment 1
4. Part I. What Does the City Become After Abandonment?
5. Chapter 1. Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture as Antithesis to Abandonment: Exploring a Citizenship- Land Model 17
6. Chapter 2. Building Affordable Housing in Cities After Abandonment: The Case of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in Detroit 41
7. Chapter 3. Detroit Art City: Urban Decline, Aesthetic Production, Public Interest 64
8. Part II. What Makes a Difference in What Cities Become After Abandonment?
9. Chapter 4. Decline- Oriented Urban Governance in Youngstown, Ohio 87
10. Chapter 5. Targeting Neighborhoods, Stimulating Markets: The Role of Political, Institutional, and Technical Factors in Three Cities 104
11. Chapter 6. Recovery in a Shrinking City: Challenges to Rightsizing Post- Katrina New Orleans 133
12. Chapter 7. Missing New Orleans: Lessons from the CDC Sector on Vacancy, Abandonment, and Reconstructing the Crescent City 151
13. Chapter 8. What Helps or Hinders Nonprofit Developers in Reusing Vacant, Abandoned, and Contaminated Property? 174
14. Chapter 9. Targeting Strategies of Three Detroit CDCs 197
15. Part III. What Should the City Become After Abandonment?
16. Chapter 10. Strategic Thinking for Distressed Neighborhoods 227
17. Chapter 11. The Promise of Sustainability Planning for Regenerating Older Industrial Cities 244
18. Chapter 12. Rightsizing Shrinking Cities: The Urban Design Dimension 268
19. Chapter 13. Planning for Better, Smaller Places After Population Loss: Lessons from Youngstown and Flint 289
20. Notes 317
21. List of Contributors 373
22. Index 379
23. Acknowledgments 387