1st Edition
Resilient Downtowns A New Approach to Revitalizing Small- and Medium-City Downtowns
By Michael Burayidi
Copyright 2013
248 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for cities seeking to rejuvenate their downtowns for decades there is disquiet among downtown managers... Read more
Chapter 1: Bringing downtowns back to life. Chapter 2: Regional and historical context of the resilient downtowns. Chapter 3: Cultivating downtown living. Chapter 4: Courting new immigrants. Chapter 5: Downtowns as civic and cultural centers. Chapter 6: Historic preservation and heritage tourism. Chapter 7: Designing resilient downtowns. Chapter 8: Economic distress and downtown revitalization. Chapter 9: Downtown alive!
Biography
Michael A. Burayidi is Irving Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning at Ball State University, Indiana. He is also author of Downtowns: Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities (Routledge, 2001) and Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society (Praeger, 2000).
