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Documents the growth and commercialization of small towns in the West by focusing on three particular towns: Moab, Utah; Sedona, Arizona; and Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and exploring the environmental concerns, changing economic problems, conflicting visions of the future, and loss of the communities' sense of self in the onrush of change.
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This book is about inspiring stories and the conviction that design professionals can make a difference to the lives of ordinary people, wherever they live, this book will galvanize, comfort and challenge all those working in architecture, landscape and design. This book is an essential resource for anyone intersted in the changing social landscape of the twenty-first century.
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"This probing comparison of two struggling company towns, one in Japan and one in the United States, offers valuable urban revitalization lessons. The author compares urban revitalization efforts in Flint, Michigan, the declining automobile industry town, and Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, home of the largest coal mine in Japan, from the early 1970s through the early 1990s. Striking similarites emerge, both in the way redevelopment policy is made and...
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"Moving forward after the destruction of the Twin Towers was a daunting task, made more difficult by the numerous competing claims on the site and the varied opinions on how it should be used in the future. Contentious City brings together the voices surrounding this intense debate, and helps to make sense of the rival interests vying for control over one of the most controversial urban development programs in history."--Jacket.
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