Patty Heyda releases new book Dec 10

Professor Patty Heyda’s latest book, “Rebuilding the American Town,” will be published Dec. 10. Her research highlights how smaller municipalities are transforming to serve their communities and meet the future. The book uncovers creative planning and design strategies of nine U.S. towns as they rebuild to remain vibrant, equitable and viable in the face of metropolitan sprawl, population shifts, political division, economic shortfalls and climate change.