Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn

Aaron Passell

Published by Columbia University Press 2021

Preserving Neighborhoods

How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn

Aaron Passell

https://doi.org/10.7312/pass19406

Overview
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About this book

Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell complicates this story, exploring how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change.

Author / Editor information

Aaron Passell is associate director of the Urban Studies Program at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Building the New Urbanism: Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape (2013).

Reviews

Jeremy Levine, University of Michigan:
Preserving Neighborhoods draws on a comparison between two distinct contexts to show how historic designation unfolds differently across different places. In doing so, Aaron Passell engages with a critical urban policy area of vital public importance that has received insufficient scholarly attention.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Explaining Change in Baltimore’s Historic Neighborhoods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3 Mitigating Gentrification Through Preservation in Central Brooklyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4 Vacancy, Abandonment, Demolition by Neglect, and Project CORE in Baltimore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
5 Struggling to Preserve in the Context of Aggressive Development Pressure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
6 Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Appendix: Data, Methods, and Measures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 21 b&w illustrations
Keywords: Historic Preservation; gentrification; neighborhood change; neighborhood policy; urban policy

eBook

Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9780231550635