Includes bibliographical references.

Section I --
Changing regions, local lives: urban revitalization in context --
Introduction: definitions, concepts, and geographies --
The uneven landscapes of urban development in the US --
Section II --
Local change in a global economy: the history and theory of urban revitalization --
Urban revitalization in historical perspective: federal urban policy, 1940s-1970s --
Urban restructuring, neoliberalism, and the changing landscape of urban revitalization --
Urban politics and development --
Section III --
Strategies, policies and projects: the spaces of revitalization --
Reinventing downtown and the urban core --
Revitalizing neighborhoods with affordability and opportunity: housing policies and other routes to neighborhood change --
Reconfiguring the suburbs: strategies for commercial revitalization and rebuilding sprawl --
Re-envisioning shrinking cities --
Cleaner and greener urban environments --
Rebuilding people-oriented places --
Section IV --
Urban revitalization methods: data, techniques, and relationships --
Data sources and community assessment tools --
Field methods --
Public participation --
Section V --
Looking forward --
Localism, regionalism, global governance and beyond.

This book provides a historical and theoretical overview of urban revitalization, offering at the same time real-life planning and policy tools, data collection techniques, and methodologies to help reinvent and reconfigure our cities and suburbs. This is an excellent, fresh, and illuminating book that works as truly solid scholarship for the classroom as well as more general reading.