America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?

by Larry R. Ford

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801871638
• ISBN13: 9780801871634
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher