Paul Robert Porter (editor) - Rebuilding Americas cities : roads to recovery

Originally published in 1984 by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Published 2012 by Transaction Publishers

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2012017242

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cities Congress on Roads to Recovery (1982 : Cleveland, Ohio) Rebuilding Americas cities : roads to recovery / Paul R. Porter and David C. Sweet, editors.

p. cm.

Proceedings of the Cities Congress on Roads to Recovery, held June 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Originally published: New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, c1984.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. City planning--United States--Congresses. 2. Urban policy-United States--Congresses. I. Porter, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1908-2002. II. Sweet, David C. III. Title.

HT167.R39 1982

307.12160973--dc23

2012017242

ISBN 13: 978-0-88285-099-3 (pbk)

We gratefully thank our fellow authors for their agreeable cooperation in making this an edited rather than an assembled book. So that their contributions might support those of others, they patiently made suggested revisions and generously yielded to other authors opportunities to say what they themselves would have liked to say. We acknowledge a debt to Virginia Benson, associate professor at the Cleveland State University College of Urban Affairs, for allowing access to her research-in-progress and to Danica Houle, Beatriz Rodriguez, and Lois Cochran who conscientiously and capably converted the authors texts into publishable copy.

The Cities Congress on Roads to Recovery, initiated and organized by the CSU College of Urban Affairs, provided the occasion for the book. We are indebted to the 300 people from 49 cities who participated in the Congress and especially to the 52 persons from 18 cities whose presentations made the Congress a widely acknowledged success and provided the stories that are analysed in the pages that follow. Among the many who made the Congress possible, we acknowledge in particular the assistance of Mayor George V. Voinovich, President Walter B. Waetjen of Cleveland State University, and Thomas Vail, publisher and editor of The Plain Dealer, as co-convenors; the 26-member planning committee; H. Richard Taylor, Jr., of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, for his resourcefulness and his travels to cities from coast to coast in search of the best success stories; Karen Lieske, Laurie Caylen, Jean Standish, Barbara Langhenry, and Madelaine Fletcher for managing the logistics; Tom Hallet for press relations; Susann Bowers for publications design; and David F. Garrison, director of the Colleges Urban Center for counsel and help in many forms. We are indebted, too, to Maxine G. Levin, whose endowment of the Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service facilitated the preparation of the book.

A $25,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development made it possible to obtain the contributions by urban scholars to this book. We thank Alan R. Siegel and Howard J. Sumka of that agency for their confidence in the prospects for the Cities Congress when its planning was still in an early stage.

Paul R. Porter
David C. Sweet

Dale F. Bertsch is professor of city and regional planning, Ohio State University.

Jay Chatterjee is dean of the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, University of Cincinnati.

Carol Davidow is coordinator for schools of the Cincinnati Business Committee.

Rolf Goetze is a consultant on neighborhood redevelopment and resides in Belmont, Massachusetts.

Robert C. Holland is president of the Committee for Economic Development.

Norman Krumholz is director of the Neighborhood Development Center, College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University and former director of planning for the city of Cleveland.

James E. Kunde is director of the urban affairs programs of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and former city manager of Dayton, Ohio.

Donald E. Lasater is chairman of the Mercantile Trust Company in St. Louis and chairman of the Community Economic Development Policy Board of the American Bankers Association.

Larry C. Ledebur is director of economic development programs for the Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

Joel Lieske is associate professor of political science, Cleveland State University.

Eugene H. Methvin is a senior editor in the Washington Bureau of Readers Digest; he covered the Cities Congress for the magazine.

Robert Mier is the commissioner of Economic Development for the City of Chicago. When his chapter was written, he was the director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and an associate professor of Urban Planning and Economics of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Paul R. Porter is Albert A. Levin Professor of Urban Studies and Public Service, College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University; recently visiting scholar, University of Aston in Birmingham, England; author, The Recovery of American Cities (1976). Before beginning a study of cities as a retirement interest he had been a trade union official, newspaper editor, diplomat and president of an international company that licensed patents and manufacturing knowhow. He contributed to the concept of the Marshall Plan and was its assistant administrator.

James W. Rouse is chairman of The Enterprise Development Company; chairman of The Rouse Company; developer of the new city of Columbia, Maryland, revitalized multi-purpose centers of distinction in Boston, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Norfolk and other cities, and over 30 suburban shopping malls.

T. Michael Smith is director of the Center for Community Development and Design, University of Colorado in Denver.