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020 _a9780471361244
082 _a307.3416
_bGRA
100 _aGratz, Roberta Brandes
_912421
245 _aCities back from the edge :
_bnew life for downtown
260 _aCanada
_bJohn Wiley & sons
_c1998
300 _axii,361p.
505 _aCONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Section One: Where Are We? Chapter One: Mansfield, Ohio— Getting Off the Big Project Merry-Go-Round 9 Chapter Two: The Mess We Have Made 33 Chapter Three: Project Planning or Urban Husbandry— The Choice 59 Section Two: Transportation and Place Chapter Four: Death and Rebirth of the Public Realm 87 Chapter Five: Rebuilding Place, Valuing Transit 113 Chapter Six: Undoing Sprawl 139 Section Three: Big, Little, and Predator Chapter Seven: Free Competition or No Competition? 169 Chapter Eight: You Don't Have to Be Wal-Mart to Be Wal-Mart 195 Chapter Nine: To Market, To Market 209 Section Four: Downtown Essentials Chapter Ten: Public Buildings, Public Policies 235 Chapter Eleven: Back to Basics 251 Chapter Twelve: Investing in People 273 Section Five: It's Happening Chapter Thirteen: The SoHo Syndrome 295 Conclusion: Back from the Edge 325 Index 349
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700 _aMintz, Norman
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890 _aCANADA
891 _aFP
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