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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Garvin, Alexander (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• What is Downtown?- Where is Downtown?- How and Why Downtown America is Changing
• People Who Are Changing Downtown
• Organizations that are Changing Downtown
• Lessons for Any Downtown
• Emerging 21st Century Downtowns
• Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Generation
• Afterword
• Notes
• Index.