Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I. City Decline and Revival
5. CHAPTER 1. The Historical Vitality of Cities 7
6. CHAPTER 2. The Growth of Metropolitan Areas in the United States 26
7. CHAPTER 3. The Relationship Between City Center Density and Urban Growth or Decline 45
8. CHAPTER 4. Central Cities and Metropolitan Areas: Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Employment as Drivers of Growth 65
9. PART II. Discovering Resilience
10. CHAPTER 5. Lessons from Resurgent Mid- Sized Manufacturing Cities 83
11. CHAPTER 6. Revitalizing Small Cities: A Comparative Case Study of Two Southern Mill Towns 105
12. CHAPTER 7. Parallel Histories, Diverging Trajectories: Resilience in Small Industrial Cities 125
13. PART III. Land and Neighborhood Policy
14. CHAPTER 8. A Market- Oriented Approach to Neighborhoods 149
15. CHAPTER 9. Transformation Is Messy Work: The Complex Challenge of Spatial Reconfiguration in America’s Legacy Cities 168
16. CHAPTER 10. Tactical Options for Stable Properties 189
17. PART IV. The New Economy and Cities
18. CHAPTER 11. Anchor Institutions in the Northeast Megaregion: An Important But Not Fully Realized Resource 207
19. CHAPTER 12. Fields, Factories, and Workshops: Green Economic Development on the Smaller- Metro Scale 224
20. CHAPTER 13. Promoting Workforce Readiness for Urban Growth 242
21. Afterword 256
22. NOTES 261
23. CONTRIBUTORS 277
24. BIBLIOGRAPHY 283
25. INDEX 305
26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 321