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Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique
challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland’s
historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While
pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization
benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings,
population loss and economic contraction prompted decades
of deterioration, underinvestment, vacancy, and abandonment.
Stephanie Ryberg-Webster uncovers the motivations, strategies, and
constraints driving Cleveland’s historic preservation sector, led
by the public-sector Cleveland Landmarks Commission, nonprofit
Cleveland Restoration Society, and a cadre of advocates. She sheds
light on the ways in which preservationists confronted severe,
escalating, and sustained urban decline, which plagued Cleveland, a
prototypical rust-belt industrial city. Preserving the Vanishing
City chronicles the rise of the historic preservation
profession in Cleveland and provides six case studies about
targeted projects and neighborhood efforts, including industrial
heritage, housing preservation and restoration, commercial district
revitalization, securing local historic district designations, as
well as grassroots organizing, coalition building, and
partnerships. Ryberg-Webster also addresses the complexities of
historic preservation within the context of rapid racial change in
Cleveland’s neighborhoods. A comprehensive history of
preservation within the context of one city’s urban
decline, Preserving the Vanishing Cityrecounts the successes,
failures, and creative strategies employed to save
Cleveland’s built environment.
Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique
challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland’s
historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While
pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization
benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings,
population loss and economic contraction prompted decades
of deterioration, underinvestment, vacancy, and abandonment.
Stephanie Ryberg-Webster uncovers the motivations, strategies, and
constraints driving Cleveland’s historic preservation sector, led
by the public-sector Cleveland Landmarks Commission, nonprofit
Cleveland Restoration Society, and a cadre of advocates. She sheds
light on the ways in which preservationists confronted severe,
escalating, and sustained urban decline, which plagued Cleveland, a
prototypical rust-belt industrial city. Preserving the Vanishing
City chronicles the rise of the historic preservation
profession in Cleveland and provides six case studies about
targeted projects and neighborhood efforts, including industrial
heritage, housing preservation and restoration, commercial district
revitalization, securing local historic district designations, as
well as grassroots organizing, coalition building, and
partnerships. Ryberg-Webster also addresses the complexities of
historic preservation within the context of rapid racial change in
Cleveland’s neighborhoods. A comprehensive history of
preservation within the context of one city’s urban
decline, Preserving the Vanishing Cityrecounts the successes,
failures, and creative strategies employed to save
Cleveland’s built environment.
Legacy cities, also commonly referred to as shrinking, or
post-industrial cities, are places that have experienced sustained
population loss and economic contraction. In the United States,
legacy cities are those that are largely within the Rust Belt that
thrived during the first half of the 20th century. In the second
half of the century, these cities declined in economic power and
population leaving a legacy of housing stock, warehouse districts,
and infrastructure that is ripe for revitalization. This volume
explores not only the commonalities across legacy cities in terms
of industrial heritage and population decline, but also their
differences. Legacy Cities poses the questions: What are the
legacies of legacy cities? How do these legacies drive contemporary
urban policy, planning and decision-making? And, what are the
prospects for the future of these cities? Contributors primarily
focus on Cleveland, Ohio, but all Rust Belt cities are discussed.
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