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Fixing Broken Cities

Through the insightful lens of an experienced practitioner, this book describes the origin, execution, and impact of urban repopulation strategiesinitiatives designed to attract residents, businesses, jobs, shoppers, and visitors to places that had undergone decades of decline and abandonment. The central question throughout the strategies explored in the book is who should benefit? Who should benefit from the allocation of scarce public capital? Who should enjoy the social benefits of urban development? And who will populate redeveloped areas? Kromer provides realistic guidance about how to move forward with strategic choices that have to be made in pursuing the best opportunities available within highly disadvantaged, resource-starved urban areas. Each of the cases presents strategies that are strongly influenced by geography, economics, politics, and individual leadership, but they address key issues that are major concerns everywhere: enlivening downtowns, stabilizing and strengthening neighborhoods, eliminating industrial-age blight, and providing quality public education options.

John Kromer is a nationally recognized expert on urban policymaking and neighborhood reinvestment strategies. As the City of Philadelphias Director of Housing from 1992 to 2001, he supervised the expenditure of more than a billion dollars in public investment. Currently, Kromer is a Senior Consultant at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fixing Broken Cities

The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies

John Kromer
University of Pennsylvania

First published 2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Kromer, John, 1948.
Fixing broken cities: the implementation of urban development strategies/John Kromer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. City planningPennsylvaniaCase studies. 2. UrbanizationPennsylvaniaCase studies. 3. City planningNew JerseyCase studies. 4. UrbanizationNew JerseyCase studies. I. Title.
HT167.5.P4K76 2009
307.121609748dc22 2009019293

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Illustrations

Figures

I.1 Context Map: Philadelphia, Camden, Allentown

Conversion Abatement Sites

CIGNA Building

Reserve at Packer Park

New Construction Abatement Sites

CCD Attack Advertisement

Penn Center

The Gallery

CCD-Financed Streetscape Improvements

Eastern North Philadelphia

West Poplar Townhouses

Richard Allen/Cambridge Plaza Townhouses

Pradera Townhouses

TRF Market Cluster Map

Vacant Lot Before Interim Greening

Vacant Lot After Interim Greening

Penn Alexander School and Penn Campus

Penn Library Frontage

Penn Alexander School

New Penn Book Store

West Philadelphia Fire House

Baltimore Avenue Census Block Groups

Camden

Northwest Quadrant

Vacant Land in Northwest Quadrant

Broadway/Boulevard Blocks

Broadway Streetscape

Prospective Mixed-Use Development Site

Parking Lots on Prospective Mixed-Use Development Site With Downtown Philadelphia Skyline in Background

Allentown and its Region

Changes in Owner Occupancy in Allentown Census Tracts, 19802000

Garage Conversion

Tables

Population Change in Sixteen U. S. Cities, 19502000

Changes in Population and Median Household Income: Three Cities and Their Suburbs

Philadelphia Population Change by Subarea, 19902000

Redevelopment Authority Board Actions: Declarations of Taking and Redeveloper Selections, Calendar Years 19972006

Rental Assistance Payments in Ten Philadelphia Zip Codes

Baltimore Avenue Census Block Groups, Population Change by Race, 1990 and 2000

Baltimore Avenue Census Block Groups, Per Capita Income by Race, 1989 and 1999

Acknowledgments

Fixing Broken Cities could not have been written without the support of my friend Joanne Barnes Jackson, who patiently taught me some basic rules of organization and structure and helped me find the best ways to present my views systematically and coherently. In addition to reading, correcting, and commenting on the entire manuscript, Joanne contributed many valuable insights that improved every chapter.

I am grateful to Kathleen and Andrew for their love and support during the challenging period in which this book was conceived and written.

Several chapters draw on experience that I gained over the course of nearly a decade at the University of Pennsylvanias Fels Institute of Government. The experience of teaching, conducting research, and participating in consulting projects while at the Fels Institute has been exciting and inspiring. Thanks are due to the current Executive Director of the Fels Institute, David Thornburgh, as well as to his predecessors, Donald Kettl and Lawrence Sherman, for supporting my work. In addition, much of the activity described in Fixing Broken Cities was supported directly or indirectly by members of the Fels Institute staff, including Christopher Patusky, Danielle Costo, Anthony Banks, Leigh Botwinik, Allison Brummel, Michelle Garcia-Navarro, Karen Kille, Catherine Lamb, Jillian Marcussen, Rebecca Perry, and Alyson Ricketts.

I am grateful for comments and advice provided by a number of people who read portions of the manuscript, including Amanda Frazier, Rose Gray, Maxine Griffith, Michael Groman, Lucy Kerman, Daniel Kildee, Catherine Lamb, Paul Levy, Monica Lesmerises, Victoria Mason-Ailey, Hallie Mittleman, Karen Beck Pooley, and Eric Weiss. Thanks also to Marlie Wasserman and her reviewers for a constructive and helpful early critique.

Most of the photos and maps in Fixing Broken Cities were produced by Jane Whitehouse Thouron of Tiger Productions, who worked tirelessly to respond to my requests and deliver spectacular results. Jessica Bloomfield contributed excellent photographs and completed a variety of support tasks over the course of several months. The University of Pennsylvania Cartographic Modeling Lab (Vicky Tam), Karen Beck Pooley, and Kenneth Steif completed maps that help provide a frame of reference for the issues discussed in several chapters.

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