An Ordinary City
Subtitle: Planning for Growth and Decline in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 28, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9783319607047
Description: This book paints an intimate portrait of an overlooked kind of city that neither grows nor declines drastically. In fact, New Bedford, Massachusetts represents an entire category of cities that escape mainstream urban studies' more customary attention to global cities (New York), booming cities (Atlanta), and shrinking cities (Flint). New Bedford-style ordinary cities are none of these, they neither grow nor decline drastically, but in their inconspicuousness, they account for a vast majority of all cities. Given the complexities of growth and decline, both temporarily and spatially, how does a city manage change and physically adapt to growth and decline? This book offers an answer through a detailed analysis of the politics, environment, planning strategies, and history of New Bedford.
Notes: Source title: An Ordinary City: Planning for Growth and Decline in New Bedford, Massachusetts