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The ruins of factories and refineries in Buffalo, Detroit, and Pittsburgh offer new possibilities for revitalizing the Rust Belt, according to this architectural study from urbanist Campo.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" This remarkable book takes us into the world of large-scale urban abandonment where conventional top-down preservation seems doomed to fail, but where citizens groups, arts collectives and marginal entrepreneurs have managed to substitute their own DIY idealism and improvisations. Campo's wonderfully-written and deeply-engaged book lifts historic preservation out of its elitist cul-de-sac and points towards possibilities of bottom-up renewal. He goes beyond preservation to speak to everyone struggling to act - whether for preservation, or sustainability, or anti-racism or equity - when so many bureaucracies and experts seem paralyzed.---Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan Campo looks beneath the shiny surfaces and official histories of cities to tell the stories of how independent, resistant, and creative people are reshaping the post-industrial city. It is also a history of how the relentless ""growth machine"" of urban redevelopment continues to undervalue the communities and cultures that have emerged at sites and districts from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. Campo's deeply researched, compellingly argued, and thoughtfully pragmatic manifesto is a critical contribution toward a more progressive and more original American urbanism.---Ray Gastil, former City Planning Director for Pittsburgh (2014-19) Daniel Campo has given us an enlightening, compassionate and critical book about abandoned industrial ruins and the intrepid people who have inhabited them through diverse acts of transgression. These large, seductive complexes have been unencumbered by official regimes, literally 'out of control, ' permissive and wild. Campo excavates and reconstructs the histories of five significant industrial sites since abandonment in Buffalo, Detroit and Pittsburgh with the stories of artists, youth, former workers, preservationists, local communities and ex-urban explorers. Without permission or standing, 'post-industrial DIYer' creatively inhabited and enlivened these ruins. What's next? Must these places be tamed by legitimate reuse? Is stabilization and ongoing itinerant use possible? Campo tells an engaging story while posing compelling questions about their future.---Lynda H. Schneekloth, Professor Emerita, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo/SUNY

"The ruins of factories and refineries in Buffalo, Detroit, and Pittsburgh offer new possibilities for revitalizing the Rust Belt, according to this architectural study from urbanist Campo.-- ""Publishers Weekly"""

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Daniel Campo, Ph.D., is an urbanist and Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Graduate Built Environment Studies in the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University. He is the author of The Accidental Playground: Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned. He was previously a planner for the New York City Department of City Planning.

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