This practical work demonstrates that controlling urban growth and reviving central city economies are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Rather than re-hash theories of urban development, the contributors describe and evaluate successful community-tested approaches to sustaining our cities. Revitalizing the City provides actual case examples of urban success stories - ranging from San Diego's "smart growth" initiative to brownfield redevelopment in Pittsburgh. The book is divided into four major sections - Urban Growth; Metropolitan Development and Administration; Central City Redevelopment...

This practical work demonstrates that controlling urban growth and reviving central city economies are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Rather than re-hash theories of urban development, the contributors describe and evaluate successful community-tested approaches to sustaining our cities. Revitalizing the City provides actual case examples of urban success stories - ranging from San Diego's "smart growth" initiative to brownfield redevelopment in Pittsburgh. The book is divided into four major sections - Urban Growth; Metropolitan Development and Administration; Central City Redevelopment...

Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization represents a departure from previous studies of urban revitalization which have concentrated on business-oriented discussions and strategies. This book focuses instead on ways in which the poor can be helped to improve their own situations and the central city itself. Rather than considering poverty to be a never-ending cycle, the authors discuss poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures. Human Capital Investment is presented as a way to alter those structures.

This book publishes results of a two year research project to analyze critical problems facing America's central cities, evaluate strategies to address those problems and recommend policy alternatives.

This collection of case studies focuses on seven US cities and consider revitalization programmes over the past 15-20 years and analyze their successes and failures. The studies were carried out by the National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities in 1990 under the auspices of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Center commissioned leading scholars to carry out this research and develop programmes and strategies for a national policy for revitalizing central cities.