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Title: Preserving the Vanishing City
Condition: New
Subtitle: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio
ISBN-10: 1439923868
EAN: 9781439923863
ISBN: 9781439923863
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 14/04/2023
Description: Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland’s historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings, population loss and economic contraction prompted decades of deterioration, underinvestment, vacancy, and abandonment.

Stephanie Ryberg-Webster uncovers the motivations, strategies, and constraints driving Cleveland’s historic preservation sector, led by the public-sector Cleveland Landmarks Commission, nonprofit Cleveland Restoration Society, and a cadre of advocates. She sheds light on the ways in which preservationists confronted severe, escalating, and sustained urban decline, which plagued Cleveland, a prototypical rust-belt industrial city.

Preserving the Vanishing City chronicles the rise of the historic preservation profession in Cleveland and provides six case studies about targeted projects and neighborhood efforts, including industrial heritage, housing preservation and restoration, commercial district revitalization, securing local historic district designations, as well as grassroots organizing, coalition building, and partnerships. Ryberg-Webster also addresses the complexities of historic preservation within the context of rapid racial change in Cleveland’s neighborhoods. 

A comprehensive history of preservation within the context of one city’s urban decline, Preserving the Vanishing Cityrecounts the successes, failures, and creative strategies employed to save Cleveland’s built environment.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Author: Stephanie Ryberg-Webster
Genre: Home Garden & Pets
Topic: Architecture & Antiques, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Technology & Engineering, History
Book Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 426g
Release Year: 2023

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