Urban Redevelopment

A North American Reader
Herausgeber: Hersh, Barry

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Produktbeschreibung

Urban redevelopment plays a major part in the growth strategy of the modern city and the goal of this book is to examine the various aspects of redevelopment, its principles and practices in the North American context. Urban Redevelopment: a North American Reader, seeks to shed light on the practice by looking at both its failures and successes; ideas that seemed to work in specific circumstances but not in others. The book aims to provide guidance to academics, practitioners, and professionals on how, when, where and why, specific approaches worked and when they didn't. The contributors offer insight into how urban design affects behavior, how finance drives architectural choices, how social equity interacts with economic development, how demographical diversity drives cities' growth, how politics determine land use decisions, how management deals with market choices, and how there are multiple influences and impacts of every decision.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138786417
• ISBN-10: 1138786411
• Artikelnr.: 42741430

Autorenporträt

Barry Hersh is a Clinical Associate Professor of Real Estate, teaching graduate courses in property development and coordinating the development program for the New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate, in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Urban redevelopment is a growing and challenging field of city planning,
design and real estate. In North America, the recycling of underutilized
land within communities is both extraordinarily complex and significant.
This collection of articles and case studies examines the key aspects of
urban redevelopment and how each contributes to modern cities.
Notes on contributors
Forward: Charlie Bartsch
1. History and trends: Barry Hersh
History of urban development and renewal
Baltimore as a model
Case Study: Eastwick, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Measuring Urban Redevelopment Trends 2017
Urbanophile case study by Rod Stevens
2. Historic preservation: Barry Hersh
The historic preservation of landmark structures, and especially districts,
has become a controversial but critical element of urban redevelopment.
What is preservation? Crucial for a community versus the rights of property
owners to develop larger, more modern buildings is a key debate in many
cities.
Examples of adaptive reuse in Toronto: Evergreen Brickworks
Toy Factory Lofts
North Toronto Station
Bethlehem Steel
3. Urban design and city form in redevelopment: William Schacht
Introduction
Urban design process
Parameters
Technology and tools for urban design
The first mandate: safe, secure and resilient
The urban design plan
Urban design of redevelopments can be, at best, examples of beautification
and creativity. Design can help mold the social and psychological as well
as physical and real estate impact of redevelopment. The use of density,
land uses, height, waterfront, public spaces and skyline all interact.
Urban design form
Design elements
Case study: Kohn Pedersen Fox - contemporary global urban design
project
Case study: design for community crime prevention - defensible space
revisited
Case study: Rocket Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
Case study: Vancouver, British Columbia
The urban design plan
4. Transportation: G.B. Arrington
Urban redevelopment is often transit oriented, exemplifying the
generational move away from the auto-dependent suburban lifestyle. Projects
frequently emphasize use of not only rail, but also of bicycles and
walking. Redevelopment can sometimes utilize, but often upgrades, existing
sewer, water and other infrastructure and may offer new services ranging
from big data analytics to local internet.
People moving to city shaping
Modern streetcars
Two different paths to a twenty-first century metamorphosis
BART's journey into the twenty-first century
Tysons Corner: from Edge City to twenty-first century city
Conclusion
Transportation case study: the Pearl District - Portland's largest TOD
Development oriented transit
Public and private initiatives shaping the Pearl District
Other urban infrastructure and sustainability
Case study: Denver TOD - the next big thing?
Incrementally, then boldly building a regional rail system
TOD evolution: from city with transit to transit city
Early TOD planning in the Denver Region
New tools, new partners and new goal posts
Central city riches, suburban focus
Prospects for the future
5. Parks, open space, arts and culture: Barry Hersh
Urban redevelopment often thrives near public open space. Rediscovering
urban parks, improving access to waterfronts or creating new amenities are
often key elements of urban redevelopment. Arts and artists are often early
harbingers of revitalization and can play a key role in long-term
redevelopment.
Arts and culture
Institutions
Mini-case studies
Gas Works Park, Seattle
Dry Gulf Stream restoration at Lamar Station Crossing, Lakewood,
Colorado
Greenway, Ranson, West Virginia
Myriad Botanical Garden, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham, North Carolina
Spruce Street Harbor Park
Discovery Green, Houston, Texas
6. Environmental issues - brownfields: Barry Hersh
The intensity and infrastructure of cities make them inherently more energy
efficient and less polluting than leafy suburbs. Compact and well located
cities can also be made more resilient. Remediation of contamination is
often an important and beneficial requirement of redevelopment; all of
which makes urban redevelopment the smartest form of growth.
Other environmental concerns: noise and air quality
Waterfront redevelopment
A Leadership and building a team
B Approval strategies
C Innovative financing
D Strategies: site acquisition
E Synergy between remediation and redevelopment
F Maximizing the benefits of waterfronts and creating true mixed-use for
waterfronts
Case study: Harbor Point, Stamford, Conneticut
Two case studies, Toledo, Ohio
Case study: gas stations
7. Revitalizing neighborhoods, housing and social equity: Genevieve Lee
Cabanella
Urban redevelopment inevitably changes a neighborhood, differences in
housing type and quality, economic opportunities, amenities and crime
prevention often also result in gentrification. How are affordable housing,
inclusionary zoning, design standards and other tools used to support
residents but still encourage redevelopment?
History of urban renewal and public housing
Financing affordable housing
Regulations and incentives in urban development
Mixed-use affordable housing
Land trusts, urban agriculture and redevelopment
Innovation in urban revitalization, gentrification
Community engagement
Case study: Camden, New Jersey
8. Real estate and capital markets: Rick Mandell
How real estate development, especially urban redevelopment, has changed
and become more challenging as the economy has emerged from the 2007-2010
financial crisis and recessions. While investor goals remain constant,
techniques, measures and perceptions change dramatically.
Funding the gap
Real estate marketing
Developers' perspective
Economic development
Business improvement districts
Redevelopment real estate taxes and liens
9. Megaprojects: Barry Hersh
Megaprojects, often urban redevelopments, are an increasing share of
development. Most are major public-private partnerships, involving
government approval and support, often of infrastructure and cleanup.
Megaprojects often include major facilities such as stadiums, parks and
transit hubs. Often these projects include stadiums, arenas, convention
centers and other major public features.
Case study: Atlantic Station, Atlanta, Georgia
Case study: Manhattan West Side, the High Line and Hudson Yards
Rebuilding Detroit
10. The urban redevelopment process: putting it all together: Barry Hersh
Key factors in success or failure
What can be learned by failure of projects and from declining cities?
Defining successful urban redevelopment, identifying successful and
innovative strategies for communities, and the role of urban redevelopment
in creating sustainable cities.
Bibliography
Index