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Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs

The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan

By: Anirban Adhya

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Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs

The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan

By: Anirban Adhya

This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures. The author explores Warren’s attempt to develop planning strategies, culturally-based initiatives, community design projects, and creative partnerships in the region in order to address the challenges of shrinkage and foreclosures at multiple scales. Global urban development is currently characterized by varied combination of metropolitan growth and urban core shrinkage. While much of the shrinkage is concentrated in central cities, first suburbs are now facing the same problem. The Warren case illustrates opportunities for flexible policies combining rightsizing, shared maintenance, and incremental development in struggling first suburban communities, which are less studied and often ignored.

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3319517090

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Urban Design Made by Humans

A Handbook of Design Ideas

By: Anirban Adhya,Philip D. Plowright

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Urban Design Made by Humans

A Handbook of Design Ideas

By: Anirban Adhya,Philip D. Plowright

The design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities. It requires relationships to be constructed and sustained between infrastructure, resources, and populations across multiple scales. This can be quite daunting. However, at the core of urban design is a simple idea—our urban spaces are designed to allow people and communities to thrive. For that reason, a good starting point for urban designers is to focus on the way people think when engaging our built environment. This thinking is embodied, developed through the interactions between our mind, body, and the environment around us. These embodied concepts are central to how we see the world, how we move and gather, and how we interact with others. They are also the same ideas we use to design our environments and cities. Urban Design Made by Humans is a reference book that presents 56 concepts, notions, ideas, and agreements fundamental to the design and interpretation of our human settlements. The ideas here parallel those found in Making Architecture Through Being Human but extends them into urban environments. Urban Design Made by Humans distinctly highlights priorities in urban design in how we produce meaningful environments catering to wider groups of people. Each idea is isolated for clarity with short and concise definitions, examples, and illustrations. They are organised in five sections of increasing complexity. Taken as a whole, the entries frame the priorities and values of urban design while also being instances of a larger system of human thinking.

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Taylor & Francis

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Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs

The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan

By: Anirban Adhya

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The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan

By: Anirban Adhya

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Urban Design Made by Humans

A Handbook of Design Ideas

By: Anirban Adhya,Philip D. Plowright

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Urban Design Made by Humans

A Handbook of Design Ideas

By: Anirban Adhya,Philip D. Plowright

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Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs

Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs

Urban Design Made by Humans

Urban Design Made by Humans

Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs

Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs

Urban Design Made by Humans

Urban Design Made by Humans

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