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Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown

ISBN: 978-0-471-14417-5
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384 pages
April 1998
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In Cities Back from the Edge, Gratz and Mintz offer a love song forthe city...their volume, attractively packaged and richlyillustrated, is really a cookbook for downtown revitalization. Itturns out the most valuable contribution to urban understanding ofthe year isn't only a book, it's also a bumper sticker: Thinkglobally, act locally."--The Wall Street Journal

Cities Back From the Edge was featured again in The New York Times.Frank Rich writes, "In their new book persuasively arguing for lessgrandiose, more indigenous urban renewal, Roberta Brandes Gratz andNorman Mintz write that a 'collection of visitor attractions doesnot add up to a city' whether those attractions are culturalcenters, convention centers, aquariums, stadiums or enclosedmalls."--The New York Times

"...provides a fascinating insight into the US Urban Designscenario..." (Urban Design, Autumn 2001)

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