TRANSFORMING DISTRESSED GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
Transforming Distressed Global Communities
Making Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities
Edited by
FRITZ WAGNER
University of Washington, USA
RIAD MAHAYNI
Iowa State University, USA
ANDREAS G. PILLER
University of Washington, USA
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
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Transforming distressed global communities : making inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities / edited by Fritz Wagner, Riad Mahayni and Andreas G Piller.
pages cm. -- (Urban planning and environment)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-1064-1 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-5012-1 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3170-0768-5 (epub) 1. City planning--Social aspects--Case studies. 2. City planning--Environmental aspects--Case studies. 3. Sustainable urban development--Case studies. 4. Urban renewal--Case studies. 5. Quality of life--Case studies. 6. Sustainable living--Case studies. 7. Community life--Case studies. I. Wagner, Fritz W. II. Mahayni, Riad G. III. Piller, Andreas G.
HT166.T734 2015
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Contents
Robert K. Whelan
Robert Mugerauer
H.V. Savitch, Doddy Aditya Iskandar, and Charles Wharton Kaye-Essien
David Shaw and Olivier Sykes
Robin Boyle and Robert Mehregan
Zhu Qian and Elise M. Bright
Mario Carrier and Marius Thriault
Pedro Novais
Robert W. Becker and Jane S. Brooks
Christopher Silver
Heather MacDonald
David Dewar
Manish Chalana and Susmita Rishi
Adnan Husnin and Surajit Chakravarty
Kaiumars Khoshchashm
Weiping Wu, Min Zhang, Jianjie Shi, and Jingyu Tu
Jiawen Hu and Daniel Benjamin Abramson
Daniel J. Monti Jr
Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, and Alexander Keating
Fritz W. Wagner, Riad G. Mahayni, and Andreas G. Piller
List of Figures and Maps
Figures
Maps
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Daniel Benjamin Abramson is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design and a faculty member of the China Studies program at the University of Washington. He holds degrees in history, architecture, and urban planning from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tsinghua University, Beijing. Abramson has organized and published on numerous community planning and design projects, conferences, research, and publicly-engaged teaching and field studios in international and cross-cultural settings. He received a Fulbright for post-earthquake reconstruction planning research in Sichuan (2010), and he currently holds a part-time annual visiting lectureship at Sichuan University in Chengdu for teaching and research on rural and peri-urban community resilience. His projects in China, Japan, Canada, and the US address the incorporation of human and community well-being in neighborhood revitalization, preservation of place identity, disaster recovery, and hazard mitigation.
Robert W. Becker has been the CEO of City Park for 10 years and has been credited with dramatically improving the parks financial condition and developing a new vision for the Parks future. Since 2005, his focus has been on the restoration of the Park following the catastrophic damage sustained during Hurricane Katrina and implementation of the Parks Master Plan. Prior to his work in City Park, Becker was the General Manager for Audubon Zoo and Park and was the Director of the New Orleans City Planning Commission. Becker is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified City Planners and an adjunct professor at the University of New Orleans. He has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the 2010 National Planning Award for a Hard Won Victory honoring the parks recovery effort. He has a BA in History from the University at Buffalo, an MA in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa, and a PhD from the University of New Orleans in Urban Studies.
Eugenie L. Birch (FAICP) is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, and co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been active in the field of city plannings professional organizations and in academia in the United States and abroad. In 2000, she was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners and made an honorary member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Birch has been a member of the Planning Accreditation Board, serving as its chair from 2004 to 2006, as well as President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, President of the Society of American City and Regional Planning History, and co-editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association. Some of her current projects include the Sustainability Community Indicator Catalog with the Partnership for Sustainable Communities and APECs Energy Smart Communities Initiative Knowledge-Sharing Platform. She is the co-editor with Susan M. Wachter of The City in the Twenty-First Century book series, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press; their latest work, Informal Real Estate Markets, will be published in 2015.
Robin Boyle is Professor of Urban Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan. He is currently co-directing the WSU Detroit Revitalization Fellows Program, serves on the WSU Standing Committee on the Environment, and has recently served on two WSU presidential initiatives: a Midtown (Detroit) Task Force and the review of the Urban Research and Outreach mission for WSU. His research interests have focused on large cities and their economic condition. He was co-principal investigator on a US Department of Labor School-to-Work Grant and was co-investigator for a US Economic Development Administration study of economic planning policies across the nation. At the local level, he has attracted external funding for research into the impact of an aging society and how to adapt the built environment to assist aging in place. He was until recently co-chair of the Detroit chapter of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and currently serves on the board of the Michigan Suburbs Alliance. Boyle is an elected member of the US Urban Affairs Association and for the past six years has served as Chair of the Planning Board for the City of Birmingham, MI.
