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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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Creating the North American landscape.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Downtown Imperative and the Need for Comparative Studies
- 1. The American Downtown: The Myth of a Golden Age
- 2. The Evolution of the American Downtown, 1850-2000
- 3. The Downtown Stage: Physical Site, Street Morphology, and Civic Space
- 4. Traditional Downtown Functions: Offices, Retailing, Hotels, and Convention Centers
- 5. Downtown Expands: Major Attractions, Historic Districts, Residential Neighborhoods, and Transportation Innovations
- 6. Ranking Downtowns: Toward a Model of Spatial Organization.