Salvaging Community: How American Cities Rebuild Closed Military Bases
Michael Touchton, "Salvaging Community: How American Cities Rebuild Closed Military Bases"
English | ISBN: 1501700065 | 2019 | 276 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1501700065 | 2019 | 276 pages | PDF | 7 MB
American communities face serious challenges when military bases close. But affected municipalities and metro regions are not doomed. Taking a long-term, flexible, and incremental approach, Michael Touchton and Amanda J. Ashley make strong recommendations for collaborative models of governance that can improve defense conversion dramatically and ensure benefits, even for low-resource municipalities. Communities can't control their economic situation or geographic location, but, as Salvaging Community shows, communities can control how they govern conversion processes geared toward redevelopment and reinvention.
In Salvaging Community, Touchton and Ashley undertake a comprehensive evaluation of how such communities redevelop former bases following the Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. To do so, they developed the first national database on military redevelopment and combine quantitative national analyses with three, in-depth case studies in California.
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