America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention?
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書誌事項
America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention?
（Creating the North American landscape）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-333) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
What makes a good downtown, and why? Are today's downtowns, with their waterfront parks, festival markets, sports arenas, and cultural centers, more vibrant and lively than the "central business districts" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Was there ever a "golden age" of downtowns? In this book, noted urban scholar Larry Ford casts a critical and practiced eye on sixteen contemporary urban centers to offer an expert's view of the best-and worst-of downtown America. 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 late 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. Featured cities: Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, San Antonio, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis
目次
Contents: Preface Introduction The Downtown Imperative and the Need for Comparative Studies1. 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 Spacial Organization Notes Bibliography Index
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