Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown

ROBERTA BRANDES GRATZ, the award-winning journalist and urbancritic, is author of the urban design classic The Living City:Thinking Small in a Big Way. A former staff reporter for the NewYork Post, Gratz has also written for The Wall Street Journal, NewYork Newsday, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and otherpublications.

NORMAN MINTZ has played a leading role in the field of downtownrevitalization for more than 25 years. He is Design Director at theGrand Central Partnership in New York City and a consultant ondowntown revitalization across the country.