Making Business Districts Work

Making Business Districts Work

Author: Marvin D Feit

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-07-27

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1136773290

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Unprecedented, broad coverage of downtown and community development topics from a practitioner’s viewpoint! Making Business Districts Work: Leadership and Management of Downtown, Main Street, Business District, and Community Development Organizations is the essential desk reference for downtown and community business district profe


Organizing for Community Controlled Development

Organizing for Community Controlled Development

Author: Patricia W. Murphy

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003-01-23

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0761904158

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Combines solid research, observation, and practical experience that speak forcefully to the need for both local place-based development and greater citizen involvement.


Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era

Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era

Author: Clarence N. Stone

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-09-18

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 022628915X

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For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however, signs of change. This collection of studies by a distinguished group of political scientists and urban planning scholars offers a rich analysis of the scope, potential, and ramifications of a shift still in progress. Focusing on neighborhoods in six cities—Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Toronto—the authors show how key players, including politicians and philanthropic organizations, are beginning to see economic growth and neighborhood improvement as complementary goals. The heads of universities and hospitals in central locations also find themselves facing newly defined realities, adding to the fluidity of a new political landscape even as structural inequalities exert a continuing influence. While not denying the hurdles that community revitalization still faces, the contributors ultimately put forth a strong case that a more hospitable local milieu can be created for making neighborhood policy. In examining the course of experiences from an earlier period of redevelopment to the present postindustrial city, this book opens a window on a complex process of political change and possibility for reform.


Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two

Author: Roy Lubove

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 1996-02-15

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780822971672

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This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results.