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Akers, Joshua, and Eric Seymour. "Instrumental Exploitation: Predatory Property Relations at City’s End." Geoforum 91 (2018): 127-40.
Akers, Joshua, Vincent Béal, and Max Rousseau. "Redefining the City and Demolishing the Rest: The Techno-green Fix in Postcrash Cleveland, Ohio." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, no. 1 (2020): 207-27. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2514848619854371
Alexander, Frank S. “Land Bank Strategies for Renewing Urban Land.” Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 14, no. 2 (2005): Excerpts.
Alexander, Leslie. “Seneca Village.” Oxford African American Studies Center, Oxford University Press. 2020. https://oxfordaasc-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-78715
Anderson, Michelle Wilde. “Mapped Out of Local Democracy.” Stanford Law Review 62, no. 4 (2010): 931-1004. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1531888

Apgar, William, and Christopher E. Herbert for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Subprime Lending and Alternative Financial Service Providers: A Literature Review and Empirical Analysis. Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. February 2006. https://www.huduser.gov/publications/pdf/sublending.pdf 
Arsen, David. “Property Tax Assessment Rates and Residential Abandonment.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 51, no. 3 (1992): 361-377.
Bagdol, Alese.  “Property Taxes and Community Land Trusts: A Middle Ground.” Texas Law Review 91, (2013): 939-959.
Barnett, Rod.  “Designing Indian Country,” Places Journal, October 2016. https://placesjournal.org/article/designing-indian-country/#0
Becker, Jochen, Mirko Zardini, Giovanna Borasi, and CCA. Actions: What You Can Do with the City. Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2008.

Berger, Alan. Drosscape: Wasting Land Urban America. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
Brenner, Neil, and Christian Schmid. "Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban?" City 19, no. 2-3 (2015): 151-82.
Bowman, Ann O'M, and Michael A. Pagano. Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004.

Bowring, Jacky. A Field Guide to Melancholy. United Kingdom: Oldcastle Books, 2011. 
Corbin, Carla I. "Vacancy and the Landscape: Cultural Context and Design Response." Landscape Journal 22, no. 1 (2003): 12-24.
Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
Cronon, William. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1995.

Czerniak, Julia. Formerly Urban: Projecting Rustbelt Futures. New York, NY: Princeton Architectual Press, 2013. 
Davis, John E. (Ed.) The Community Land Trust Reader. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010. https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles/the-community-land-trust-reader-chp.pdf
Davis, Ujijji. “The Bottom: The Emergence and Erasure of Black American Urban Landscapes.” The Avery Review 34 (2018). https://www.averyreview.com/issues/34/the-bottom
De Monchaux, Nicholas, and Keller Easterling. Local Code: 3659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.
Donovan, Michael T. "The Abandonment of Real Estate Projects." Real Estate Taxation 36, no. 4 (2009): 148-163.

English, Wesley Hodge. “The Impact of Property Flipping on Single Family Detached Home Prices.” Masters Thesis, University of Texas, December 2005. https://rc.library.uta.edu/uta-ir/bitstream/handle/10106/436/umi-uta-1185.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#:~:text=further%20defines%20flipping%20%E2%80%9Cas%20the,effort%20to%20curtail%20predatory%20lending.

Ellen, Ingrid, Alexis Captanian. “Gentrification And The Health Of Legacy Residents.” Health Affairs. August 16, 2020. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20200724.106767/full/

Ergungor, Emre, and Thomas J Fitzpatrick IV. “Slowing Speculation: A Proposal to Lessen Undesirable Housing Transactions.” Center for Community Progress. March 2012. https://www.communityprogress.net/slowingspeculation--a-proposal-to-lessen-undesirable-housing-transactions-resources-133.php 
Fainstein, Susan S. The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.

Fernald, Marcia, eds. America’s Rental Housing 2020. Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. 2020. https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/reports/files/Harvard_JCHS_Americas_Rental_Housing_2020.pdf
Foster, Sheila R., and Christian Iaione. "The City as a Commons." Yale Law & Policy Review 34, no. 2 (2016): Excerpts. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1698&context=ylpr
Fullilove, Mindy Thompson. “Unceasing Struggle,” in Root Shock:New Village Press, 2016: 165-192.
Frampton, Adam., Clara Wong, and Jonathan. Solomon. Cities without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook. Rafael, CA: Oro Editions, 2012. https://www.only-if.com/portfolio/cities-without-ground/
Francis, Jacinta, Billie Giles-Corti, Lisa Wood and Matthew Knuiman. "Creating Sense of Community: The Role of Public Space." Journal of Environmental Psychology 32, no. 4 (2012): 401-09. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266620692_Creating_Sense_of_Community_The_role_of_public_space#read
Gamble, David, Patty Heyda. Rebuilding the American City. London: Routledge, 2016.
Garvin, Eugenia, Charles Branas, Shimrit Keddem, Jeffrey Sellman, & Carolyn Cannuscio.  “More Than Just an Eyesore: Local Insights and Solutions on Vacant Land and Urban Health.” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 90, no. 3 (2013): 412-426. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23188553/

Gioielli, Robert. “Get the Lead Out: Environmental Politics in 1970s St. Louis.” Journal of Urban History 36, No. 4, 2010.
Glabere, Michael L. "Milwaukee: A Tale of Three Cities." In Redlining To Reinvestment, edited by Squires Gregory D., by Logan John R. and Swanstrom Todd, 149-69. Temple University Press, 1992. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14btc7m.9.
Gordon, Colin. Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City. Politics and Culture in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.  http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu/
Gordon, Colin. "Patchwork Metropolis: Fragmented Governance and Urban Decline in Greater St. Louis." Saint Louis University Public Law Review 34, no. 1 (2014): 51-70.https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=plr
Greenspan, Elizabeth. “Nicetown.” Places Journal, June 2019. https://placesjournal.org/article/nicetown-inequality-in-philadelphia/

Groth, Jacqueline, and Eric Corijn. "Reclaiming Urbanity: Indeterminate Spaces, Informal Actors and Urban Agenda Setting." Urban Studies 42.3 (2005): 503-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43198269?seq=1

Harney, Stefano, Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Brooklyn, NY: Minor Compositions, 2013. https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf
Harvey, David. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Harris, Linda. “Dilapidated buildings, absentee ownership plague communities across the state .” WV News. August 14, 2017. https://www.wvnews.com/theet/news/local/dilapidated-buildings-absentee-ownership-plague-communities-across-the-state/article_55ea9044-9565-5e84-8f4d-b7fb44d7a4a6.html 

Haskel, Eric. “Investing in Real Property – A Primer.” White Paper No. 47A, Greycourt and Co., Inc. October 2009. http://www.greycourt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/WhitePaper047A-InvestinginRealProperty.pdf  
Hackworth, Jason. "The Limits to Market-based Strategies for Addressing Land Abandonment in Shrinking American Cities." Progress in Planning 90 (2014): 1-37.
Heckert, Megan, & Jeremy Mennis. “The Economic Impact of Greening Urban Vacant Land: A Spatial Difference-in-Differences Analysis.” Environment and Planning A 44, no. 12 (2012): 3010-3027. https://www.wcupa.edu/business-PublicManagement/geographyPlanning/GIS/documents/Heckert.pdf
Herscher, Andrew. The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012.

Herscher, Andrew. “Unreal Estate: An Introduction” in The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012: 6-21. https://placesjournal.org/article/the-unreal-estate-guide-to-detroit/
Hillier, Amy E., Dennis P. Culhane, Tony E. Smith, & Charles Dana Tomlin. “Predicting Housing Abandonment with the Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System.” Journal of Urban Affairs 25, no. 1 (2003): 91-106. https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=cplan_papers
Hollander, Justin B. "Moving Toward a Shrinking Cities Metric: Analyzing Land Use Changes Associated With Depopulation in Flint, Michigan." Cityscape 12, no. 1 (2010): 133-51. www.jstor.org/stable/20868735.
Hollander, Justin, Colin Polsky, Dan Zinder, & Dan Runfola. “The New American Ghost Town: Foreclosure, Abandonment, and the Prospects for City Planning.” Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Papers, 2010. http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1858_TheNew-American-Ghost-Town
Hollander, Justin B., Jeremy Németh. "The Bounds of Smart Decline: A Foundational Theory for Planning Shrinking Cities." Housing Policy Debate 21, no. 3 (2011): 349-67.
Holston, James, Nancy Postero, Eli Elinoff and Nicole Fabricant. "Metropolitan Rebellions and the Politics of Commoning the City." Anthropological Theory 19, no. 1 (2019): 120-42. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1463499618812324
Holway, Jim, Don Elliott, & Anna Trentadue. “Combating Zombie Subdivisions: How Three Communities Redressed Excess Entitlements.” Land Lines Magazine, January 2014. https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/combating-zombie-subdivisions

Hu, Shelia. “What Is Climate Gentrification?” Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). August 27, 2020. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-climate-gentrification 
Hutton, Jane. "Breathing with Trees: London Plane Trees from Rikers Island to Seventh Avenue, 1959." In Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements, 144-85. 1st ed. Routledge, 2020.

Jacobs, Harvey M. “Claiming the Site,” in Carol Burns and Andrea Kahn, eds. Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies. New York: Routledge, 2005
Jaffe, Greg. “The strange summer land rush in Peoria’s dying south end.” The Washington Post. August 14, 2021.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/peoria-il-real-estate/?itid=ap_gregjaffe

J. Max Bond Center. “Mapping America’s Legacy Cities 2015.” City College of New York, 2015. https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MappingAmericanLegacyCities_15Dec2015.pdf
Johnson, Walter. “Prologue: Mapping the Loss,” in The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2020: 1-12. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/BasicBooks-Excerpt-The-Broken-Heart-Of-America.pdf
Johnson, Walter. "What Do We Mean When We Say, “Structural Racism”? A Walk down West Florissant Avenue, Ferguson, Missouri." Kalfou(Santa Barbara, Calif.) 3, no. 1 (2016): 36-62. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/wjohnson/files/ferguson_kalfou_published.pdf
Jordan, Cora. “Easements Acquired by Use of Property.” Neighbor Law: Fences, Trees, Boundaries and Noise. 1994. http://forum.yurclub.ru/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_id=48798
Kaijima, Momoyo, Junzō Kuroda, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Made in Tokyo = メイド·イン·ト－キョ－. Tōkyō: 鹿島出版会; Kajima Shuppankai, 2001.
Kamvasinou, Krystallia. "The Public Value of Vacant Urban Land." Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer 164, no. 3 (2011): 157-66. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303318744_The_Public_Value_of_Urban_Vacant_Land_Social_Responses_and_Ecological_Value
Lander, Brad. “How to Avoid a Post-Recession Feeding Frenzy by Private Developers.” The New York Times, September 2, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/opinion/new-york-housing-stores-land-banks.html

Lanks, Belinda. “Creative Shrinkage.” New York Times Magazine, December 10, 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section1B.t-3.html
Latz, Peter. “The Idea of Making Time Visible.” TOPOS 33 (December 2000): 94–99.

Lefebvre, Henri. Writings on Cities. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. https://chisineu.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lefebvre-henri-writings-on-cities.pdf

Lewis, Justin M. “Restrictive Covenants: What Are They And Why Should You Care?” Ward and Smith P.A., Attorneys at Law. May 5, 2021. https://www.wardandsmith.com/articles/restrictive-covenants-what-are-they-and-why-should-you-care
Lindeke, Bill. “A worrisome housing trend: non-local investment firms buying Minnesota properties .” MinnPost. May 20, 2021. https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2021/05/a-worrisome-housing-trend-non-local-investment-firms-buying-minnesota-properties/ 
Lokman, Kees. "Vacancy as a Laboratory: Design Criteria for Reimagining Social-ecological Systems on Vacant Urban Lands." Landscape Research 42, no. 7 (2017): 728-46. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319082460_Vacancy_as_a_laboratory_design_criteria_for_reimagining_social-ecological_systems_on_vacant_urban_lands
López-Piñeiro, Sergio. A Glossary of Urban Voids. Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2020. Excerpts.
Low, Setha, and Alan Smart. "Thoughts about Public Space During Covid‐19 Pandemic." City & Society 32, no. 1 (2020): N/a. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ciso.12260
Lynch, Kevin and Michael Southworth. Wasting Away. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990.

Martin, Isaac William & Kevin Beck. "Gentrification, Property Tax Limitation, and Displacement." Urban Affairs Review 54, no. 1 (2018): 33-73.
Martin, Douglas. "A Village Dies, A Park Is Born." The New York Times (New York, N.Y), 1997. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/arts/a-village-dies-a-park-is-born.html
Matta-Clark, Gordon, Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, Frances Richard, Jeffrey A. Kroessler, White Columns, and Queens Museum of Art. Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's "fake Estates". New York: Cabinet Books, in Conjuction with the Queens Museum of Art and White Columns, 2005.
McCarty, Maggie. "Introduction to Public Housing." Congressional Research Service Report for Congress. Congressional Research Service, January 3, 2014. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41654.pdf.

McClintock, Nathan. “Assessing soil lead contamination at multiple scales in Oakland, California: Implications for urban agriculture and environmental justice.” Applied Geography 35, Iss. 1-2 (2012): 460-473. https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science/article/pii/S0143622812001014
McLaughlin, Nancy A. "Conservation Easements and the Doctrine of Merger." Law and Contemporary Problems 74, no. 4 (2011): 279-95. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1923390#:~:text=McLaughlin-,Nancy,McLaughlin&text=Conservation%20easements%20raise%20a%20number,title%20to%20the%20encumbered%20land.

Meckler, Laura and Kate Rabinowitz. “The lines that divide: School district boundaries often stymie integration.” The Washington Post. December 16, 2019.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/12/16/lines-that-divide-school-district-boundaries-often-stymie-integration/
Miller, Johnny. “Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequality.” The Guardian, February 21, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality

Milligan, Brett. “Landscape Migration,” Places Journal, June 2015. https://placesjournal.org/article/landscape-migration/.
Mitchell, Don. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. New York: Guilford Press, 2003.

Mitchell, Don. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. New York: Guilford Press (2003): 1-41.https://erikafontanez.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/mitchell-the-right-to-the-city.pdf

Mitchell, Don. “The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, No. 1 (1995): 108-133. http://sites.middlebury.edu/igst404/files/2014/01/Mitchell-End-of-Public-Space.pdf
Mock, Brentin. “A Neighborhood’s Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980.” Bloomberg CityLab, September 21, 2020. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/race-gap-in-home-appraisals-has-doubled-since-1980

Moore, Tom & Kim McKee. “Empowering Local Communities? An International Review of Community Land Trusts.” Housing Studies 27, no. 2 (2012): 280–290.
Morckel, Victoria. “Empty Neighborhoods: Using Constructs to Predict the Probability of Housing Abandonment.” Housing Policy Debate 23, no .3 (2013): 469-496.
Morgan, Mallory Roberts. “Beautiful Black Lives Matter Murals Now Cover Melrose Avenue Design Stores.” Architectural Digest, June 9, 2020. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/beautiful-black-lives-matter-murals-now-cover-melrose-avenue-design-stores?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ad&utm_mailing=ARD_Daily_PM_060920&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5d2380aefc942d1a7fb11579&cndid=55252281&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&utm_term=ARD_Daily

Myklebust, Sara, Patrick Woodall, Oscar Valdes Viera, Omar Ocampo, Jonathan Heller, Chuck Collins, and Joe Fitzgerald. Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction. Report. Institute for Policy Studies. March 2021. https://ips-dc.org/cashing-in-on-our-homes/ 
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). Federal Moratorium on Evictions for Nonpayment of Rent. NLIHC and National Housing Law Project (NHLP) FAQ Report. April 2021. https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/National-Eviction-Moratorium_FAQ-for-Renters.pdf 

National Low Income Housing Coalition Staff. “Gentrification and Neighborhood Revitalization: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?” National Low Income Housing Coalition. April 5, 2019.  https://nlihc.org/resource/gentrification-and-neighborhood-revitalization-whats-difference

Nolan, Elizabeth P. “Vacant Land Conversion in Detroit, Michigan: A Spatial Analysis of Neighborhood Stabilization and Communal Access.” Master’s Thesis, Harvard Extension School. 2017. https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/33826411/NOLAN-DOCUMENT-2017.pdf?sequence=1
Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Ouazad, Amine. “Blockbusting: Brokers and the dynamics of segregation.” Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 157 (2015): 811-841. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022053115000393 
Park, Kyŏng, and Urban Ecology International Center for Urban Ecology. Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond. Hong Kong: Map Book Publishers, 2005.
Pidot, Jeff., and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. “Reinventing Conservation Easements: A Critical Examination and Ideas for Reform.” Policy Focus Report / Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2005. https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/reinventing-conservation-easements
Pinkham, Richard, and Rocky Mountain Institute. Daylighting : New Life for Buried Streams. Old Snowmass, Co.: Rocky Mountain Institute, 2000. https://d231jw5ce53gcq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RMI_Document_Repository_Public-Reprts_W00-32_Daylighting.pdf
Plumer, Brad, Nadja Popovich. "How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering." New York Times, Aug. 24, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/24/climate/racism-redlining-cities-global-warming.html

Poon, Linda. “CityLab Daily: Can Land Banks Get Us Out of This Mess?” Bloomberg, June 16, 2020. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-06-16/citylab-daily-can-land-banks-get-us-out-of-this-mess
Popper, Deborah E. and Frank J. Popper. "Small Can Be Beautiful: Coming to Terms with Decline: Americans Tend to Think That Places, Once Settled, Stay Settled. (Smart Decline)." Planning 68, no. 7 (2002): 20. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/download/attachments/37718462/popper_2002_Small+Can+Be+Beautiful.pdf
Purdy, Jedediah. “Environmentalism’s Racist History.” The New Yorker, August 13, 2015. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history

Practical Money Skills. “Understanding Mortgages.” Practical Money Skills. Updated 2021. https://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/learn/life_events/buying_a_home/understanding_mortgages

Prener, Christopher G., Taylor Harris Braswell, Daniel J. Monti. “St. Louis’s “urban prairie”: Vacant land and the potential for revitalization.” Journal of Urban Affairs 42, Vol. 3 (2020): 371-389. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2018.1474079
Qazi, Shehryar. “Another Real Estate Crash is Coming.” Jacobin Magazine, May 16, 2020. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/real-estate-crash-pandemic-coronavirus
Rabianski, Joseph S. “Vacancy in Market Analysis and Valuation.” The Appraisal Journal 70, no. 2, (2002): 191-199.
Raver, Anne. “Where the Water Was” Landscape Architecture Magazine, October 2018. https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2018/11/16/where-the-water-was/

Rouse, Cecilia, Jared Bernstein, Helen Knudsen, and Jeffery Zhang. “Exclusionary Zoning: Its Effect on Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market.” The White House. June 17, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/blog/2021/06/17/exclusionary-zoning-its-effect-on-racial-discrimination-in-the-housing-market/
Rusert, Britt, and Battle-Baptiste, Whitney eds. W. E. B. du Bois's Data PortraitsVisualizing Black America. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018. Excerpts.
Ryan, Brent D. and Lorena Bello. “The Fiscal Topography of the Shrinking City.” Prospecta 47: Money, The Yale Architectural Journal (2014): 199-205.  https://architecture.mit.edu/sites/architecture.mit.edu/files/attachments/project/Ryan_Bello_article.pdf
Schilling, Joseph, and Jonathan Logan. "Greening the Rust Belt: A Green Infrastructure Model for Right Sizing America's Shrinking Cities." Journal of the American Planning Association 74.4 (2008): 451-66. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249052073_Greening_the_Rust_Belt_A_Green_Infrastructure_Model_for_Right_Sizing_America's_Shrinking_Cities.
Schneekloth, Lynda. “Unruly and Robust: An Abandoned Industrial River” in Franck, Karen A., and Quentin Stevens, eds. Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life. London; New York: Routledge, 2007: 253–270.

Sengupta, Rajdeep and William R. Emmons. “What is Subprime Lending?” Economic Synopses, no. 13. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 2007. https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/es/07/ES0713.pdf
Silverman, Robert M., Li Yin, & Kelly L. Patterson.  “Dawn of the Dead City: An Exploratory Analysis of Vacant Addresses in Buffalo, NY 20082010.” Journal of Urban Affairs 35, no. 2 (2013): 131-152. https://ppgbuffalo.org/files/documents/housing_neighborhoods/dawn_of_the_dead_city_an_exploratory_analysis_of_vacant_addresses_in_buffalo__ny_2008_to_2010.pdf
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Soth, Alec. “The Great Divide.” The New York Times, September 5th 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/05/opinion/inequality-life-expectancy.html
Spencer, Douglas. “Returns on the City: Detroit and the Design of Late Fordism.” Harvard Design Magazine 46 (2018). http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/46/returns-on-the-city-detroit-and-the-design-of-late-fordism
Spirn, Anne Whiston. “Reclaiming Common Ground: Water, Neighborhoods, and Public Spaces," in Robert Fishman, ed., The American Planning Tradition. Woodrow Wilson Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000: xx.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice and City Planning and Design." Landscape Research 30, no. 3 (2005): 395-413. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.534.9126&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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Swope, Christopher. “Smart Decline.” Governing Magazine, November 2006. http://www.governing.com/topics/economic-dev/Smart-Decline.html
TallBear, Kim. "Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming." Kalfou 6, no. 1 (2019): 24-41.
Taylor, Dorceta. Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. "How Real Estate Segregated America." Dissent 65, no. 4 (2018): 23-32.
Thomas Jr., Wilbur L. “Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities, 1970” in Wells, Christopher W, and Sutter, Paul S. Environmental Justice in Postwar America. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018: 99-103.
Ukeles, Mierle Laderman. "Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! Proposal for an Exhibition “CARE”, 1969. https://queensmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ukeles-Manifesto-for-Maintenance-Art-1969.pdf
Wallace, David. “Fred Moten’s Radical Critique of the Present.” The New Yorker, April 30, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/fred-motens-radical-critique-of-the-present

Wall, Derek. The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology. The MIT Press, 2014.
Webley, Curtis. “Taxation of Abandonment.” Journal of Accountancy 213, no. 3 (2012). https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2012/mar/20114907.html
Wendel, Delia Duong. "Imageability and Justice in Contemporary New Orleans." Journal of Urban Design: New Orleans and the Design Moment 14, no. 3 (2009): 345-75.

Worland, Justin. “The Climate Real Estate Bubble: Is the U.S. on the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?” TIME Magazine. April 19, 2021. https://time.com/5953380/climate-housing-crisis/
Running on Cargo