From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years. Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size but outsized accomplishment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and progress over political victory. These are the cities leading America . . . and they're not waiting for Washington's help. As mayor of one of America's most improved cities, Cornett used a bold, creative, and personal approach to orchestrate his city's renaissance. Once regarded as a forgettable city in "flyover country," Oklahoma City has become one of our nation's most dynamic places-and it is not alone. In this book, Cornett translates his city's success-and the success of cities like his-into a vision for the future of our country. The Next American City is a story of civic engagement, inventive public policy, and smart urban design. It is a study of the changes re-shaping American urban life-and a blueprint for those to come.
It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not ...
Koval, John P., Larry Bennett, Michael I.J. Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner, and Kiljoong Kim, eds. The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis. Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 2006. Kromer, John.
The “cause” of Hyde Park-Kenwood's decline has been brilliantly identified, by the planning heirs of the bloodletting doctors, as the presence of “blight.” By blight they mean that too many of the college professors and other ...
Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.
In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for ...
The selections in this book demonstrate his understanding of urban spaces and how, when politically unobstructed, he was able to manipulate them.
This edition includes a new afterword by Sampson reflecting on changes in Chicago and the country that have occurred since the book was initially published.
The Fall of a Great American City is the story of what is happening today in New York City and in many other cities across America.
tion of the novel gives way to a brief sequence of events—and considerable self-scrutiny by an older Wilson Ravan. This final section of the novel is set in Famagusta, Cyprus. Just has structured his action in such a way that the ...
"[This] is a large volume made up of extended essays by four Italian urbanists who have been studying the United States in some depth....