Supporting Shrinkage: Better Planning and Decision-Making for Legacy Cities

Author:   Michael P. Johnson ,  Justin B. Hollander ,  Eliza W. Kinsey ,  George R. Chichirau
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438483467


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   02 January 2022
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Supporting Shrinkage describes a new approach to citizen-engaged, community-focused planning methods and technologies for cities and regions facing decline, disinvestment, shrinkage, and social and physical distress. The volume evaluates the benefits and costs of a wide range of analytic approaches for designing policy and planning interventions for shrinking cities and distressed communities. These include collaborative planning, social media, civic technology, game design, analytics, decision modeling and decision support, and spatial analysis. The authors present case studies of three US cities addressing shrinkage and decline, with a focus on issues of social justice, democratization of knowledge, and local empowerment. Proposed as a solution is an approach that puts community engagement and empowerment at the center, combined with data and technology innovations. The authors argue that decisions informed by qualitative and quantitative data and analytic methods, implemented through accessible and affordable technologies, and based on notions of social impact and social justice, can enable residents to play a leading role in the positive transformation of shrinking cities and distressed communities.

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Author:   Michael P. Johnson ,  Justin B. Hollander ,  Eliza W. Kinsey ,  George R. Chichirau
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438483467


ISBN 10:   1438483465
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   02 January 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. Planning, Technology, and Shrinking Cities 2. What Can Data and Technology Do for Shrinking Cities and Distressed Communities? 3. Three Shrinking Cities: History, Practice, Data, and Technology 4. Data and Modeling Preliminaries: An Application to Fall River, Massachusetts 5. Shrinking City Data and Decision Modeling: Baltimore, Maryland 6. Technology, Data, and Community-Building Where People Matter 7. Lessons Learned: How Can Data, Models, and Technology Support Shrinking Cities and Distressed Communities? Works Cited About the Authors Index

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The book should be of interest to a wide range of practitioners and civic leaders as well as scholars in urban planning, public administration, urban geography, and urban studies ... In offering bold, prescriptive, and detailed ideas for community-based interventions, clear examples, forthright reflections on the challenges of implementation, and in making a very persuasive case for using decision sciences in planning applications, this book fills a large and long-standing gap. - Journal of Urban Affairs Supporting Shrinkage provides a compelling legacy cities literature search and a legacy cities social equity conversation ... Supporting Shrinkage is a great addition to a planning library. - Journal of Planning Literature


Supporting Shrinkage provides a compelling legacy cities literature search and a legacy cities social equity conversation ... Supporting Shrinkage is a great addition to a planning library. - Journal of Planning Literature


Author Information

Michael P. Johnson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Justin B. Hollander is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. Eliza W. Kinsey is Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. George R. Chichirau is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University.

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