America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention?: Fid-Bau Portal

Fachinformationsdienst BAUdigital

A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism

America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention?

Ford, Larry

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, 1850-2 -- 3. The downtown stage: physical site, street morphology, and civic space -- 4. The traditional downtown functions: offices, retailing, hotels and convention centers -- 5. Downtown expands: major attractions, historic districts, residential neighborhoods, and transportation options -- 6. Ranking downtowns: toward a model of spatial organization

Access

Check availability in my library

Page navigation

Document information

Export, share and cite

America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention?

Ford, Larry

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, 1850-2 -- 3. The downtown stage: physical site, street morphology, and civic space -- 4. The traditional downtown functions: offices, retailing, hotels and convention centers -- 5. Downtown expands: major attractions, historic districts, residential neighborhoods, and transportation options -- 6. Ranking downtowns: toward a model of spatial organization

America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention?

Ford, Larry

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, 1850-2 -- 3. The downtown stage: physical site, street morphology, and civic space -- 4. The traditional downtown functions: offices, retailing, hotels and convention centers -- 5. Downtown expands: major attractions, historic districts, residential neighborhoods, and transportation options -- 6. Ranking downtowns: toward a model of spatial organization

Access

Check availability in my library

Page navigation

Document information

Export, share and cite

Document information

Title:

America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention?

Contributors:

Ford, Larry (author)

Published in:

Creating the North American landscape

Publication date:

2003

Size:

340 S

Remarks:

23cm
zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
Includes bibliography (p. [315]-333) and index

ISBN:

Type of media:

Report

Type of material:

Print

Language:

English

Keywords:

USA , Stadtsanierung , Städtebau , Innenstadt Case studies , Central business districts , Urban renewal , United States

Classification:

DDC: 307.3/416/0973 / 307.34160973
BKL: 74.12 Stadtgeographie, Siedlungsgeographie / 74.25 Nordamerika

Similar titles

BOOK REVIEWS - America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?

Ford, Larry | Online Contents | 2004

Books - Urban Design - America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?

Ford | Online Contents | 2004

America's downtowns : growth, politics & preservation

Collins, Richard C. / Waters, Elizabeth B. / Dotson, Anthony Bruce et al. | TIBKAT | 1991

Private Money and Management Are Transforming America's Downtowns

Biederman, Dan | British Library Online Contents | 2016

Gentrification and neighborhood housing cycles : will America's future downtowns be rich?

Brueckner, Jan Keith / Rosenthal, Stuart S. | BASE | 2005

Free access