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Author : Mac Wellman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452908670
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book New Downtown Now written by Mac Wellman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberta Brandes Gratz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471361244
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Cities Back from the Edge written by Roberta Brandes Gratz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A love song for the city . . . [this] volume, attractivelypackaged and richly illustrated, is really a cookbook for downtownrevitalization." --Wall Street Journal In this pioneering book on successful urban recovery, two urbanexperts draw on their firsthand observations of downtown changeacross the country to identify a flexible, effective approach tourban rejuvenation. From transportation planning and sprawlcontainment to the threat of superstore retailers, they address ahost of key issues facing our cities today. Roberta Brandes Gratz (New York, NY), an award-winning journalistand urban critic, is author of the urban design classic The LivingCity. A former staff reporter for the New York Post, Gratz haswritten for the New York Times Magazine and other publications.Norman Mintz (New York, NY) has played a leading role in the fieldof downtown revitalization for more than twenty-five years. He isDesign Director at the 34th Street Partnership in New York City anda consultant on downtown revitalization across the country.
Author : Jerry A. McCoy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439626405
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Downtown Silver Spring written by Jerry A. McCoy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a tour of the dynamic central business district of Silver Spring, Maryland, and its surroundings. In 1840, journalist and politician Francis Preston Blair discovered a sparkling mica-flecked spring that would serve as the centerpiece of his country estate, Silver Spring. In just over a century, this bucolic woodland, located across the border from Washington, D.C., became known as downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. Author Jerry A. McCoy, founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society and a special collections librarian at the D.C. Public Library's Washingtoniana Division and Peabody Room, takes you inside of how it came to be.
Author : Kembrew McLeod
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353455
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book The Downtown Pop Underground written by Kembrew McLeod and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “McLeod’s deft and generous book tells of a constellation of avant-garde squatters, divas, and dissidents who reinvented the world.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times-bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn The 1960s to early ’70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown Pop Underground takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds and personalities were that flourished in the basement theaters, dive bars, concert halls, and dingy tenements within one square mile of each other. Author Kembrew McLeod links the artists, writers, and performers who created change, and while some of them didn’t become everyday names, others, like Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry, did become icons. Ambitious in scope and scale, the book is fueled by the actual voices of many of the key characters who broke down the entrenched divisions between high and low, gay and straight, and art and commerce—and changed the cultural landscape of not just the city but the world. “The story of underground artists of the 1960s and ’70s, an amalgam of bustling radical creativity and fearless groundbreaking work in art, music, and theater.” —Tim Robbins “Breathes new fire into a familiar history and is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how American bohemia really happened.” —Ann Powers, critic, NPR Music “Honors those who were at the forefront of a movement that transformed our understandings of sexuality and artistic freedom.” —Lily Tomlin
Author : Alexander Garvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1610919491
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Heart of the City written by Alexander Garvin and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future. If we are to have healthy downtowns, we need to understand what downtown is all about; how and why some American downtowns never stopped thriving (such as San Jose and Houston), some have been in decline for half a century (including Detroit and St. Louis), and still others are resurging after temporary decline (many, including Lower Manhattan and Los Angeles). The downtowns that are prospering are those that more easily adapt to changing needs and lifestyles. In The Heart of the City, distinguished urban planner Alexander Garvin shares lessons on how to plan for a mix of housing, businesses, and attractions; enhance the public realm; improve mobility; and successfully manage downtown services. Garvin opens the book with diagnoses of downtowns across the United States, including the people, businesses, institutions, and public agencies implementing changes. In a review of prescriptions and treatments for any downtown, Garvin shares brief accounts--of both successes and failures--of what individuals with very different objectives have done to change their downtowns. The final chapters look at what is possible for downtowns in the future, closing with suggested national, state, and local legislation to create standard downtown business improvement districts to better manage downtowns. This book will help public officials, civic organizations, downtown business property owners, and people who care about cities learn from successful recent actions in downtowns across the country, and expand opportunities facing their downtown. Garvin provides recommendations for continuing actions to help any downtown thrive, ensuring a prosperous and thrilling future for the 21st-century American city.
Author : Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133405
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Downtown written by Robert M. Fogelson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: “Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience.” —Booklist Written by one of this country’s foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown—and the way Americans thought about downtown—changed over time. By showing how businessmen and property owners worked to promote the well-being of downtown, even at the expense of other parts of the city, it also gives a riveting account of spatial politics in urban America. Drawing on a wide array of contemporary sources, Robert M. Fogelson brings downtown to life, first as the business district, then as the central business district, and finally as just another business district. His book vividly recreates the long-forgotten battles over subways and skyscrapers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And it provides a fresh, often startling perspective on elevated highways, parking bans, urban redevelopment, and other controversial issues. This groundbreaking book will be a revelation to scholars, city planners, policymakers, and anyone interested in American cities and American history. “A thorough and accomplished history.” —The Washington Post Book World "Superlative . . . a vital contribution to the study of American life.” —Publishers Weekly “A superbly thorough analysis of the causes of inner-city blight, congestion, and economic decline in mid-20th century urban America.” —Library Journal Includes photographs
Author : Frank B. Edwards
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Bungalo Books
ISBN 13 : 9780921285502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Downtown Lost and Found written by Frank B. Edwards and published by Kingston, Ont. : Bungalo Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost zoo animals are found.
Author : Bernard J. Frieden
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262560597
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Downtown, Inc. written by Bernard J. Frieden and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships that have revitalized the downtowns of such cities as Boston, San Diego, Seattle, St. Paul, and Pasadena.
Author : Elsie Martinez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Uptown/downtown written by Elsie Martinez and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard E. Ocejo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691176310
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Upscaling Downtown written by Richard E. Ocejo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once known for slum-like conditions in its immigrant and working-class neighborhoods, New York City's downtown now features luxury housing, chic boutiques and hotels, and, most notably, a vibrant nightlife culture. While a burgeoning bar scene can be viewed as a positive sign of urban transformation, tensions lurk beneath, reflecting the social conflicts within postindustrial cities. Upscaling Downtown examines the perspectives and actions of disparate social groups who have been affected by or played a role in the nightlife of the Lower East Side, East Village, and Bowery. Using the social world of bars as windows into understanding urban development, Richard Ocejo argues that the gentrifying neighborhoods of postindustrial cities are increasingly influenced by upscale commercial projects, causing significant conflicts for the people involved. Ocejo explores what community institutions, such as neighborhood bars, gain or lose amid gentrification. He considers why residents continue unsuccessfully to protest the arrival of new bars, how new bar owners produce a nightlife culture that attracts visitors rather than locals, and how government actors, including elected officials and the police, regulate and encourage nightlife culture. By focusing on commercial newcomers and the residents who protest local changes, Ocejo illustrates the contested and dynamic process of neighborhood growth. Delving into the social ecosystem of one emblematic section of Manhattan, Upscaling Downtown sheds fresh light on the tensions and consequences of urban progress.
Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307801942
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Edge City written by Joel Garreau and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.
Author : Ilana Preuss
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831921
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Recast Your City written by Ilana Preuss and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.
Author : Paul E. Groth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520068766
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (687 download)
Download or read book Living Downtown written by Paul E. Groth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.
Author : Melissa Rachleff
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791355589
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Inventing Downtown written by Melissa Rachleff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening and thought-provoking look at New York City’s postwar art scene focuses on the galleries and the artists that helped transform American art. While the achievements of New York City’s most renowned postwar artists—de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, Franz Kline— have been studied in depth, a large cadre of lesser-known but influential artists came of age between 1952 and 1965. Also understudied are the early, experimental works by more well- known figures such as Mark di Suvero, Jim Dine, Dan Flavin, and Claes Oldenburg. Focusing on innovative artist-run galleries, this book invites readers to reevaluate the period—uncovering its diversity, creativity, and nuances, and tracing the spaces’ influence during the decades that followed. Inventing Downtown charts the development of artist-run galleries in Lower Manhattan from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s, showing how the area’s multicultural spirit played a major role in shaping the artworks exhibited there. The book explores 14 key spaces in which styles such as Pop, Minimalism, and performance and installation art thrived. Excerpts from 33 revealing interviews with artists, critics, and dealers, conducted by Billy Klu&̈ver and Julie Martin, offer unique personal insight into the era’s creative milieu. Taken together, the book’s essays and interviews provide a distinctly new assessment of how downtown New York’s fertile environment nurtured an innovative art scene.
Author : Morgan Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781623840037
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Downtown Anthology written by Morgan Gould and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new and innovative plays from New York's downtown theater scene by up-and-coming young writers.
Author : Dan Hubbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614686477
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Downtown Super Tells All written by Dan Hubbs and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXCERPT FROMWelcome to New York!He shook my hand outOn the sidewalkA thumb-to-thumb shakeThat felt like I wasIn on somethingWith him, he smiledAnd said, Hey man IWork in the neighborhoodToo, and so on, butKnow what manI'm kind of stuckI just need like fiveBucks to get outTo my family inNew Jersey I'mNot bullshitting youMan and I'll evenLeave my work shirtSee that's my nameLou above thePocket that's meI work right overHere on ChambersMan and if you canFront me like fiveBucks I swear I'llBring you back tenTomorrow I'mNot fucking withYou man honest toGod I lost my walletAnd just need someHelp you knowMan?That shirt hung in myCloset for a whileAnd then I started wearingIt around the buildingWhen I was moppingThe floor or downTo the Raccoon LodgeAt night on Warren StreetSo that some of the guysI knew used to look upAnd smile when I cameWalking in for a beer"DAN HUBBS plays two-finger banjo and writes songs that sound like they might have been favorites a hundred years ago." -- Sarah Craig, Executive Director Caffè Lena
Author : John C. Henshall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811321078
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Downtown Revitalisation and Delta Blues in Clarksdale, Mississippi written by John C. Henshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the town’s intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi Delta. John Henshall highlights underlying trends in downtown decline and revitalisation in cities and towns in America, together with commentary of his own experience at home in Australia. In Clarksdale, downtown economic revitalisation gained momentum in the mid-2000s as local residents and newcomers focused their entrepreneurial and creative efforts on promoting Clarksdale’s heritage, which is steeped in Blues music and Delta culture. While much attention to date has been given to large cities – from Sydney to San Francisco and from London to New York – as ‘creative cities’, little has been written about creativity in small cities and towns. This book delves into the positive role played by creative individuals in the economic revitalisation of downtown Clarksdale. The role of urban planning and community interaction is examined, and key lessons are provided for other small cities and towns, as they seek out opportunities to revitalise their downtowns and town centres.
