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Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1138786403
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138786400
- Pub. Date:
- 09/06/2017
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10:
- 1138786403
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138786400
- Pub. Date:
- 09/06/2017
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader / Edition 1
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Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader seeks to shed light on the practice by looking at both its failures and successes, ideas that seemed to work in specific circumstances but not in others.
The book aims to provide guidance to academics, practitioners and professionals on how, when, where and why, specific approaches worked and when they didn’t. While one has to deal with each case specifically, it is the interactions that are key. The contributors offer insight into how urban design affects behavior, how finance drives architectural choices, how social equity interacts with economic development, how demographical diversity drives cities’ growth, how politics determine land use decisions, how management deals with market choices, and how there are multiple influences and impacts of every decision.
The book moves from the history of urban redevelopment, The City Beautiful movement, grand concourses and plazas, through urban renewal, superblocks and downtown pedestrian malls to today’s place-making: transit-oriented design, street quieting, new urbanism, publicly accessible, softer, waterfront design, funky small urban spaces and public-private megaprojects. This history also moves from grand masters such as Baron Haussmann and Robert Moses through community participation, to stakeholder involvement to creative local leadership. The increased importance of sustainability, high-energy performance, resilience and both pre- and post-catastrophe planning are also discussed in detail.
Cities are acts of man, not nature; every street and building represents decisions made by people. Many of today’s best recognized urban theorists look for great forces; economic trends, technological shifts, political movements and try to analyze how they impact cities. One does not have to be a subscriber to the "great man" theory of history to see that in urban redevelopment, successful project champions use or sometimes overcome overall trends, using the tools and resources available to rebuild their community. This book is about how these projects are brought together, each somewhat differently, by the people who make them happen.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781138786400 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 09/06/2017 |
Pages: | 192 |
Product dimensions: | 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d) |
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Table of Contents
Table of ContentsUrban redevelopment is a growing and challenging field of city planning, design and real estate. In North America, the recycling of underutilized land within communities is both extraordinarily complex and significant. This collection of articles and case studies examines the key aspects of urban redevelopment and how each contributes to modern cities.
Notes on contributors
Forward: Charlie Bartsch
1. History and trends: Barry Hersh
History of urban development and renewal
Baltimore as a model
Case Study: Eastwick, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Measuring Urban Redevelopment Trends 2017
Urbanophile case study by Rod Stevens
2. Historic preservation: Barry Hersh
The historic preservation of landmark structures, and especially districts, has become a controversial but critical element of urban redevelopment. What is preservation? Crucial for a community versus the rights of property owners to develop larger, more modern buildings is a key debate in many cities.
Examples of adaptive reuse in Toronto: Evergreen Brickworks
Toy Factory Lofts
North Toronto Station
Bethlehem Steel
3. Urban design and city form in redevelopment: William Schacht
Introduction
Urban design process
Parameters
Technology and tools for urban design
The first mandate: safe, secure and resilient
The urban design plan
Urban design of redevelopments can be, at best, examples of beautification and creativity. Design can help mold the social and psychological as well as physical and real estate impact of redevelopment. The use of density, land uses, height, waterfront, public spaces and skyline all interact.
Urban design form
Design elements
Case study: Kohn Pedersen Fox – contemporary global urban design
project
Case study: design for community crime prevention – defensible space
revisited
Case study: Rocket Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
Case study: Vancouver, British Columbia
The urban design plan
4. Transportation: G.B. Arrington
Urban redevelopment is often transit oriented, exemplifying the generational move away from the auto-dependent suburban lifestyle. Projects frequently emphasize use of not only rail, but also of bicycles and walking. Redevelopment can sometimes utilize, but often upgrades, existing sewer, water and other infrastructure and may offer new services ranging from big data analytics to local internet.
People moving to city shaping
Modern streetcars
Two different paths to a twenty-first century metamorphosis
BART’s journey into the twenty-first century
Tysons Corner: from Edge City to twenty-first century city
Conclusion
Transportation case study: the Pearl District – Portland’s largest TOD
Development oriented transit
Public and private initiatives shaping the Pearl District
Other urban infrastructure and sustainability
Case study: Denver TOD – the next big thing?
Incrementally, then boldly building a regional rail system
TOD evolution: from city with transit to transit city
Early TOD planning in the Denver Region
New tools, new partners and new goal posts
Central city riches, suburban focus
Prospects for the future
5. Parks, open space, arts and culture: Barry Hersh
Urban redevelopment often thrives near public open space. Rediscovering urban parks, improving access to waterfronts or creating new amenities are often key elements of urban redevelopment. Arts and artists are often early harbingers of revitalization and can play a key role in long-term redevelopment.
Arts and culture
Institutions
Mini-case studies
Gas Works Park, Seattle
Dry Gulf Stream restoration at Lamar Station Crossing, Lakewood,
Colorado
Greenway, Ranson, West Virginia
Myriad Botanical Garden, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham, North Carolina
Spruce Street Harbor Park
Discovery Green, Houston, Texas
6. Environmental issues – brownfields: Barry Hersh
The intensity and infrastructure of cities make them inherently more energy efficient and less polluting than leafy suburbs. Compact and well located cities can also be made more resilient. Remediation of contamination is often an important and beneficial requirement of redevelopment; all of which makes urban redevelopment the smartest form of growth.
Other environmental concerns: noise and air quality
Waterfront redevelopment
A Leadership and building a team
B Approval strategies
C Innovative financing
D Strategies: site acquisition
E Synergy between remediation and redevelopment
F Maximizing the benefits of waterfronts and creating true mixed-use for
waterfronts
Case study: Harbor Point, Stamford, Conneticut
Two case studies, Toledo, Ohio
Case study: gas stations
7. Revitalizing neighborhoods, housing and social equity: Genevieve Lee Cabanella
Urban redevelopment inevitably changes a neighborhood, differences in housing type and quality, economic opportunities, amenities and crime prevention often also result in gentrification. How are affordable housing, inclusionary zoning, design standards and other tools used to support residents but still encourage redevelopment?
History of urban renewal and public housing
Financing affordable housing
Regulations and incentives in urban development
Mixed-use affordable housing
Land trusts, urban agriculture and redevelopment
Innovation in urban revitalization, gentrification
Community engagement
Case study: Camden, New Jersey
8. Real estate and capital markets: Rick Mandell
How real estate development, especially urban redevelopment, has changed and become more challenging as the economy has emerged from the 2007–2010 financial crisis and recessions. While investor goals remain constant, techniques, measures and perceptions change dramatically.
Funding the gap
Real estate marketing
Developers’ perspective
Economic development
Business improvement districts
Redevelopment real estate taxes and liens
9. Megaprojects: Barry Hersh
Megaprojects, often urban redevelopments, are an increasing share of development. Most are major public-private partnerships, involving government approval and support, often of infrastructure and cleanup.
Megaprojects often include major facilities such as stadiums, parks and
transit hubs. Often these projects include stadiums, arenas, convention
centers and other major public features.
Case study: Atlantic Station, Atlanta, Georgia
Case study: Manhattan West Side, the High Line and Hudson Yards
Rebuilding Detroit
10. The urban redevelopment process: putting it all together: Barry Hersh
Key factors in success or failure
What can be learned by failure of projects and from declining cities? Defining successful urban redevelopment, identifying successful and innovative strategies for communities, and the role of urban redevelopment in creating sustainable cities.
Bibliography
Index