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Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl Paperback – April 15, 1999

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America's preservation movement has long fought the destructive force of so- called urban renewal, where highways and shopping malls rise up on the rubble of former thriving downtowns. Now communities are in the fight of their lives against urban sprawl- boundless development that devours the countryside and leaves cities and small towns in ruins-a fight that is as much about preserving our civic space as our landscape. In Changing Places, authors Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie give examples of how America's embattled towns are defing themselves against corporate giants and depressed economies, from community activists restoring pride in their innercities to municipalities breathing life back into historic downtowns. At once cautionary and redemptive, Changing Places has been hailed by David McCullough as "a call to arms that should be read by everyone alarmed by the rampant devastation of our cities, our towns, our history, and our way of life."

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April 15, 1999
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6.16 x 0.82 x 9.22 inches
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0805061843
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978-0805061840
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"Inspiring, thought-provoking, persuasive-a book you put down wishing everyone in public life would read." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

"A hard-nosed and historically based critique. More than a jeremiad against sprawl, Changing Places suggests alternatives." (The New York Times Book Review)

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Richard Moe, author of The Last Full Measure, is president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Carter Wilkie, a longtime preservationist and former White House speechwriter, was an advisor to Boston's mayor Thomas M. Menino.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Holt Paperbacks (April 15, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805061843
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805061840
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.16 x 0.82 x 9.22 inches

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D. Williams

A passionate, well-argued statement against urban sprawl.

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 1998

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The authors offer a very articulate, well-documented argument that presses for a more preservation-oriented urban planning that respects the nation's architectural treasures. Of course, we have all heard this argument so many times before--- one that often falls on deaf ears because federal policy, urban political priorities, and powerful development interests work against it. With this hard reality in mind, the major contribution of this work is that the authors suggest that preservation is not only about saving historic architecture and historic places, it is also about restoring and rebuilding our nation's shattered urban communities. As they state it so well, "(p)reservation is the business of saving special places and the quality of life they support. It has to do with more than bricks, balustrades, columns, and cobblestones. It has to do with the way individuals, families, and communities come together in good environments" (p. 240).
Beyond the planni! ! ng rhetoric, the authors provide a number of detailed case studies of New Orleans, Memphis, Pittsburg, and snapshots of other towns both big and small that illustrate well exactly how this connection between historic preservation and community can be made. With all of the current attention on "community" as the critical factor in restoring a hospitable environment in urban America, this book necessarily becomes very relevant and useful.
This book is so well written and interesting! I do not hesitate to recommended it to all audiences.

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saskatoonguy

What have we done to our cities?

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2001

Moe and Wilkie describe what has gone wrong with the planning of urban and suburban America, and discuss their solution: a combination of historic preservation, community activism, and more intelligent zoning regulations. Their book is very much in the spirit of New Urbanism - that cities should be looking backward to traditional planning approaches that served us so well before World War II. Memphis gets the most attention in this book, as both a positive and negative example; the authors also focus on New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Denver, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), and several small towns that revitalized their main streets. Moe and Wilkie write with a journalistic balance that I found refreshing, in contrast to the rabid ranting of certain other books. Even when describing Disney's failed effort to build a theme park in northern Virginia, the authors resist the trap of making Disney sound like the heart of evil, and allow the reader to understand the situation from Disney's perspective. The only drawback is that even though the book is about historic preservation and urban planning, there are only 20 illustrations.

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John F. Rohe

An in-depth diagnosis of urban sprawl.

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 1998

Another book on urban sprawl can understandably be met with diminished expectations. But don't allow your expectations to languish when you pick up Changing Places. Get ready for the passion of two preservationists. And no one is exempt from their stern gaze; not the press, not the politicians, not the professional planners, not the building industry, and not even you and me. Richard Moe has been the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation since 1992. His attention to detail conspires with his affinity for root causes in the aptly titled Changing Places. Carter Wilkie was a White House speech writer. Moe and Wilkie observe we have abandoned the art of place making. As we are products of our created settings, the disintegration of historic communities leaves us with a loss of identity as a people. We become historically illiterate. This book isn't for everyone. If you have never walked into a traditional urban setting and asked yourself: "How in the world did they ever let this happen?" then you'll find this book unsatisfying. If you've never wondered how to restore the historic, civic, cultural and economic center of a community, then you'll be mystified by the authors' flair for detail in successful plans for reclamation. If you've never sensed the hopelessness in the eyes of our children in urban settings, then you'll have little use for the authors' thoughtful choice of words in defining our loss. If, on the other hand, you perceive the loss and think there is still something worth preserving, something to salvage, then this is a must-read. John F. Rohe (rohe@freeway.net), the reviewer, is an attorney in Petoskey, Michigan and is the author of A Bicentennial Malthusian Essay (ISBN 1-890394-00-9).

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