American downtowns have utilized a wide assortment of redevelopment strategies over the
past four decades in an attempt to revive the rapidly decentralizing retail sector. To compete …

The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and
scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Historic preservation and planning often operate
together in the United States within local planning departments, sharing some common roots …

The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the
focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted …

Downtown America was once the vibrant urban center romanticized in the Petula Clark song—
a place where the lights were brighter, where people went to spend their money and forget …

The downtowns of American cities present a dilemma. Civic and business leaders view
downtown as the key but troubled ingredient of the overall metropolitan fabric. Downtowns …

In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African
American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of …

A healthy downtown is an essential element of the prosperity of most non-suburban small
cities (25,000 to 50,000 population). Unfortunately, the professional and scholarly literature …

In the face of increasing suburbanization during the past half century, most downtowns have
experienced decline, particularly those of small metropolitan regions. A survey of planners …

The “new American city” is composed of many parts, including downtowns of primary cities
whose contents have changed over the past fifty years as a new paradigm about their …