The Heart of the City Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century /

• Main Author: Garvin, Alexander (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Nature.; Environment.; Industrial management-Environmental aspects.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Sustainability Management.

"Alex Garvin looks at cities with a clearer eye than any other planner in America. He loves cities, but I think he loves empirical observation even more. This book is a paean to downtown, driven not by dogma but by a realistic, practical sensibility and an understanding of how cities really wor...