America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention / Larry R. Ford.
"Ford begins with a brief history of U.S. urban development. He then explains his criteria for evaluating downtowns before proceeding with an on-the-street examination of the featured sixteen cities. Each is rated based on use of physical site, particularly for housing (unlike suburbs, Ford not...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Creating the North American landscape.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Ford begins with a brief history of U.S. urban development. He then explains his criteria for evaluating downtowns before proceeding with an on-the-street examination of the featured sixteen cities. Each is rated based on use of physical site, particularly for housing (unlike suburbs, Ford notes, most downtowns are located in challenging physical locales, such as harbors, rivers, hills, or peninsulas), street morphology, civic space, functional aspects (office space, retail stores, and convention centers), and the support districts in the fringe areas surrounding the downtown core. Ford concludes with a suggested model of downtown structure based upon the case studies and with a look at the possible effects of increasing globalization on the downtowns of the early twenty-first century. This book will appeal to those interested in urban studies, landscape studies, American studies, architecture, historic preservation and planning, and urban geography." "Larry R. Ford is a professor of geography at San Diego State University who has taught urban geography for thirty years."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801871638 9780801871634 |