Downtown, Inc. : how America rebuilds cities. / txt
Bernard J. Frieden, Lynne B. Sagalyn.
- xiv, 382 p., [40] p. of plates ill. ; 23 cm. book
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-375).
Preface xi -- 1 A Bunch of Nobodies 1 -- Legacy of the Big Stores / Vanishing Crowds -- 2 Sanitizing the City 15 -- Alliances: The Pittsburgh Model / Highway Detours / The Urban Renewal Takeover / Tracking the Money / Demolition by the Acre / The Cover-up / Casualty Count -- 3 Blueprint for indifference 39 -- Designed for Isolation / Nobody Knows the Rubble I’ve Seen / The freeway Revolt / Losing Urban Renewal / Persuasive Protests / Progress but not Applause -- 4 Would the Shopping Mall Play Downtown? 61 -- Sanctuaries for Shopping / Competing with Easy Street / A Tonic for Tired Cities? / Roadblocks / The Gatekeepers / Searching for New Locations -- 5 Pasadena: No Bed of Roses 87 -- Inventing a Transplant / Sweetheart Deals / Pledging Future Taxes / Protective Maneuvers / Sharing Troubles -- 6 Entrepreneurial Cities and Maverick Developers 107 -- A Landmark in Boston / James Rouse: Mixing Pleasure with Business / A Public Market in Seattle / John Clise: The Coalition Builder / Proving St. Paul’s Competence / George Latimer: The Mayor’s Glue / A porno District in San Diego / Ernest Hahn: Endurance and Flexibility / Gerald Trimble: The Public Sector Developer -- 7 Deal Making 133 -- Testing the Waters / Deals to Match Projects / Development by Consensus / City Hall Deal Markers / Coping with Crisis / Negotiable Designs / The Relationship is the Deal -- 8 Getting and Spending 155 -- Paying without Pain / The Federal Pipeline: Good to the Last Drop / Digging into Local Resources / Safe Money for Risky Projects / Dovetailing Dollars into Joint Ventures -- 9 Open for Business 171 -- Faneuil Hall: Marketing the Unusual / Pike Place: Preserving the Past / Town Square: Making the Setting Special / Horton Plaza: Designing Fantasies -- 10 Popular Success and Critical Dismay 199 -- Fear of Commerce / Artificial Environments / Highbrows and Lowbrows -- 11 Privatizing the City 215 -- Running Risks: Burbank, St. Paul, Detroit / Setup for Scandal / How Public Is a Mall? / Security at a Price / The Chaining of Main Street -- 12 Marketplace Contributions 239 -- Uses of Commercialism / Taming Times Square and Bryant Park / School for Management / The Hiding Hand / Selling Columbus Circle -- 13 Downtown Malls and the City Agenda 259 -- Corporate Territory / 250 Empire State Buildings / Lodgings and Lobbies / Conventioneers / The Gentry Come to Town / Stagecraft / Big League Ambitions / Logic in the Patchwork -- 14 An Unfinished Renaissance 287 -- Indicting City Hall / Manufacturing Myths: New York and Pittsburgh / Is Development Unfair? / Where is the Opposition? / Bargaining for Downtown Jobs: Baltimore and Boston / Slowing the Pace / The Mall Business / Do Cities Learn? -- Notes 317 -- Sources 323 -- Index 377 --
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Urban renewal--United States. Central business districts--United States.