{"product_id":"cities-back-from-the-edge-isbn-9780471144175","title":"Cities Back from the Edge","description":"\"A love song for the city . . . [this] volume, attractivelypackaged and richly illustrated, is really a cookbook for downtownrevitalization.\" --Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this pioneering book on successful urban recovery, two urbanexperts draw on their firsthand observations of downtown changeacross the country to identify a flexible, effective approach tourban rejuvenation. From transportation planning and sprawlcontainment to the threat of superstore retailers, they address ahost of key issues facing our cities today.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Roberta Brandes Gratz (New York, NY), an award-winning journalistand urban critic, is author of the urban design classic The LivingCity. A former staff reporter for the New York Post, Gratz haswritten for the New York Times Magazine and other publications.Norman Mintz (New York, NY) has played a leading role in the fieldof downtown revitalization for more than twenty-five years. He isDesign Director at the 34th Street Partnership in New York City anda consultant on downtown revitalization across the country. WHERE ARE WE?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mansfield, Ohio--Getting Off the Big Project Merry-Go-Round.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Mess We Have Made.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Project Planning or Urban Husbandry--The Choice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e TRANSPORTATION AND PLACE.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Death and Rebirth of the Public Realm.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rebuilding Place, Valuing Transit.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Undoing Sprawl.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e BIG, LITTLE, AND PREDATOR.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Free Competition or No Competition?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You Don't Have to Be Wal-Mart to Be Wal-Mart.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To Market, To Market.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e DOWNTOWN ESSENTIALS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Public Buildings, Public Policies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Back to Basics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Investing in People.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e IT'S HAPPENING.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The SoHo Syndrome.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index. In Cities Back from the Edge, Gratz and Mintz offer a love song forthe city...their volume, attractively packaged and richlyillustrated, is really a cookbook for downtown revitalization. Itturns out the most valuable contribution to urban understanding ofthe year isn't only a book, it's also a bumper sticker: Thinkglobally, act locally.\"--The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cities Back From the Edge was featured again in The New York Times.Frank Rich writes, \"In their new book persuasively arguing for lessgrandiose, more indigenous urban renewal, Roberta Brandes Gratz andNorman Mintz write that a 'collection of visitor attractions doesnot add up to a city' whether those attractions are culturalcenters, convention centers, aquariums, stadiums or enclosedmalls.\"--The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"...provides a fascinating insight into the US Urban Designscenario...\" (Urban Design, Autumn 2001) ROBERTA BRANDES GRATZ, the award-winning journalist and urbancritic, is author of the urban design classic The Living City:Thinking Small in a Big Way. A former staff reporter for the NewYork Post, Gratz has also written for The Wall Street Journal, NewYork Newsday, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and otherpublications.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e NORMAN MINTZ has played a leading role in the field of downtownrevitalization for more than 25 years. He is Design Director at theGrand Central Partnership in New York City and a consultant ondowntown revitalization across the country.  Gratz takes us on tours of places that are doing better and actually getting somewhere, because, against all odds, they have abandoned conventional wisdom's unworkable and oversimplified formulas and re-embraced new opportunities as complex and rewarding as life itself. It's roll-up-our-sleeves time in America, folks, and now we have no more excuses. Roberta Gratz has assembled the examples worth learning from, and her book is an excellent teacher.\" — Tony Hiss author of The Experience of Place  \u003cp\u003e\"Roberta Gratz is wonderful at discovering important things that are going on that most of us have not heard of yet.\" — Jane Jacobs author of Death and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I read the newspaper differently every day since I read this book.\" —Anthony Mancini author, professor of journalism at Brooklyn College, and former reporter for the New York Post\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter decades of decline and decay, scores of downtowns in urban America are coming to life once again. Others continue to languish despite massive public investment. In Cities Back from the Edge, acclaimed author Roberta Brandes Gratz teams up with Main Street expert Norman Mintz to tell us why. Based on their firsthand observations of downtown change throughout the country, this book is filled with stories of urban recovery from Mansfield, Ohio to Los Angeles, from Pasco, Washington to SoHo. Rejecting simplistic cookie-cutter prescriptions for success, Gratz and Mintz instead identify a more flexible and effective approach to downtown rejuvenation: Urban Husbandry. They illustrate how this organic, sustainable process is already producing real-world results. What's more, they show the tremendous advantages of low-cost, modest initiatives over the blockbuster resuscitation efforts of traditional large-scale Project Planning—the budget-busting convention centers, aquariums, stadiums, and other stand-alone solutions that do little to improve the city around them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout this book the authors address the key issues facing the nation's cities and towns today, including transportation planning and sprawl containment, the threat of big-box superstore retailers, and the preservation of the essential downtown components necessary to anchor a thriving, vibrant community. Gratz and Mintz show us that rebuilding authentic places, reconnecting communities, and stimulating innovative change are within everyone's reach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities Back from the Edge turns the spotlight on the resurgence of downtown America in a new and insightful way. With proven ideas on how to correct the mistakes of the past several decades, this book offers new hope that our cities will not merely be rebuilt—but reborn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988922941669,"sku":"NP9780471144175","price":62.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780471144175.jpg?v=1761782066","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/cities-back-from-the-edge-isbn-9780471144175","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}