Planning for better, smaller places after population loss: Lessons from youngstown and flint

The City After Abandonment

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 289-316

  Dewar, Margaret ^a   Kelly, Christina ^b   Morrison, Hunter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Genesee County Land Bank   (United States)

^c Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium ^*  (United States)

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