Proposed Zoning Ordinance, City of Detroit
Title | Proposed Zoning Ordinance, City of Detroit PDF eBook |
Author | Detroit (Mich.). City Plan Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1940 |
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2012 Michigan Residential Code
Title | 2012 Michigan Residential Code PDF eBook |
Author | ICC/Michigan |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781609832070 |
Proposed Zoning Ordinance
Title | Proposed Zoning Ordinance PDF eBook |
Author | Vermilion County (Ill.). ORDINANCES, ETC |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Land use |
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Municipal Reference Library Notes
Title | Municipal Reference Library Notes PDF eBook |
Author | New York Public Library. Municipal Reference Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
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Internal Revenue Service Facility, Detroit
Title | Internal Revenue Service Facility, Detroit PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1991 |
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New National Real Estate Journal
Title | New National Real Estate Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Real estate business |
ISBN |
Redevelopment and Race
Title | Redevelopment and Race PDF eBook |
Author | June Manning Thomas |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0814339085 |
In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet despite their efforts, Detroit was rapidly transforming into a notorious symbol of urban decay. In Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas takes a look at what went wrong, demonstrating how and why government programs were ineffective and even destructive to community needs. In confronting issues like housing shortages, blight in older areas, and changing economic conditions, Detroit's city planners worked during the urban renewal era without much consideration for low-income and African American residents, and their efforts to stabilize racially mixed neighborhoods faltered as well. Steady declines in industrial prowess and the constant decentralization of white residents counteracted planners' efforts to rebuild the city. Among the issues Thomas discusses in this volume are the harmful impacts of Detroit's highways, the mixed record of urban renewal projects like Lafayette Park, the effects of the 1967 riots on Detroit's ability to plan, the city-building strategies of Coleman Young (the city's first black mayor) and his mayoral successors, and the evolution of Detroit's federally designated Empowerment Zone. Examining the city she knew first as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University and later as a scholar and planner, Thomas ultimately argues for a different approach to traditional planning that places social justice, equity, and community ahead of purely physical and economic objectives. Redevelopment and Race was originally published in 1997 and was given the Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 1999. Students and teachers of urban planning will be grateful for this re-release. A new postscript offers insights into changes since 1997.