@UAPVirginiaTech's Joseph Schilling coauthors American Planning Association guide for cities in transition

by Barbara Micale

"Joseph Schilling, research assistant professor and associate director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Alan Mallach have coauthored Cities in Transition: A Guide for Practicing Planners, published by the American Planning Association (APA). The two authors are presenting the report at the 2012 Virginia APA Conference this week in Wintergreen, Va.

Cities in Transition, available through the APA bookstore, offers practicing planners a comprehensive menu of place-based strategies for addressing different dimensions of urban distress -- from the reclamation of vacant properties to rebuilding local government and civic capacity. Schilling and Mallach view cities in transition through a typology that includes older industrial, shrinking cities, fast growing boom-n-bust cities, declining first tier suburbs, and small, but growing gateway cities. All these cities, large and small, east and west, share similar challenges of trying to confront the convergence of many socioeconomic transitions."  Read more at http://ncr.vt.edu/highlights/Highlight-071912.html.