Dale Thomson, associate professor of political science, wrote a chapter in the newly released The City After Abandonment. The edited volume (edited by U-M’s Margaret Dewar and June Manning Thomas) examines three questions about cities that have suffered from significant abandonment: What are cities becoming after abandonment? Why these outcomes? What should abandoned areas of cities become? The book lays out ways that policymakers can approach the future of such cities through mechanisms that differ from those used in growing cities. Thomson’s chapter looks at targeted approaches in Detroit, Baltimore and Cleveland.
