Margaret Dewar is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, and author of numerous articles about cities in decline. June Manning Thomas is Centennial Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, and author of many books, including Planning Progress: Lessons from Shoghi Effendi and Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit.

"Wide ranging and drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines... A valuable contribution to the literature on declining or shrinking cities and, in particular, cities with long-term property abandonment. It should be widely read by urban planning, public policy, and urban studies scholars."-Dan Immergluck, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Introduction: The City After AbandonmentI. WHAT DOES THE CITY BECOME AFTER ABANDONMENT?Chapter 1. Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture as Antithesis to Abandonment-Exploring a Citizenship-Land Model-Laura Lawson and Abbilyn MillerChapter 2. Building Affordable Housing in Cities After Abandonment: The Case of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in Detroit-Lan DengChapter 3. Detroit Art City: Urban Decline, Aesthetic Production, Public Interest-Andrew HerscherII. WHAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN WHAT CITIES BECOME AFTER ABANDONMENT?Chapter 4. Decline-Oriented Urban Governance in Youngstown, Ohio-Laura SchatzChapter 5. Targeting Neighborhoods, Stimulating Markets: The Role of Political, Institutional, and Technical Factors in Three Cities-Dale E. ThomsonChapter 6. Recovery in a Shrinking City: Challenges to Rightsizing Post-Katrina New Orleans-Renia Ehrenfeucht and Marla NelsonChapter 7. Missing New Orleans: Lessons from the CDC Sector on Vacancy, Abandonment, and Reconstructing the Crescent City-Jeffrey S. Lowe and Lisa K. BatesChapter 8. What Helps or Hinders Nonprofit Developers in Reusing Vacant, Abandoned, and Contaminated Property?-Margaret DewarChapter 9. Targeting Strategies of Three Detroit CDCs-June Manning ThomasIII. WHAT SHOULD THE CITY BECOME AFTER ABANDONMENT?Chapter 10. Strategic Thinking for Distressed Neighborhoods-Robert A. BeauregardChapter 11. The Promise of Sustainability Planning for Regenerating Older Industrial Cities-Joseph Schilling and Raksha VasudevanChapter 12. Rightsizing Shrinking Cities: The Urban Design Dimension-Brent D. RyanChapter 13. Planning for Better, Smaller Places After Population Loss: Lessons from Youngstown and Flint-Margaret Dewar, Christina Kelly, and Hunter MorrisonNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments