Phoenix Cities: The Fall and Rise of Great Industrial Cities

摘要

To the ever growing literature on urban restructuring comes a 5-part, 16-chapter, 412-page illustrated text by a trio of researchers from the London School of Economics. This book takes a case study approach-seven European cities (Leipzig, Bremen, Belfast, Sheffield, Bilbao, Torino, and Saint Etienne) and six American cities (Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Akron, Chattanooga, and Louisville). Focusing on post-1970 crises, public sector responses, and socioeconomic outcomes, Power, Ploger, and Winkler assert that their book "should be relevant to city-level policymakers and practitioners, and [should] shed new light on academic debates about growth and decline".