Downtown, Inc
How America Rebuilds Cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11093930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joe R Feagin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 860 |
| Publication date | 1990-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities, Bernard J Frieden, 1991 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2073222 |
| OpenAlex | W2078261198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Part 1 A bunch of nobodies: legacy of the big stores, vanishing crowds. Part 2 Sanitizing the city: alliances - the Pittsburgh model highway detours the urban renewal takeover tracking the money demolition by the acre the cover-up casualty count. Part 3 Blueprint for indifference: designed for isolation nobody knows the rubble I've seen the freeway revolt losing urban renewal persuasive protests progress but no applause. Part 4 Would the shopping mall play downtown?: sanctuaries for shopping competing with easy street a tonic for tired cities? roadblocks the gatekeepers searching for new locations. Part 5 Pasadena - no bed of roses: inventing a transplant sweetheart deals pledging future taxes protective maneouvres sharing troubles. Part 6 Entrepreneurial cities and maverick developers: 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. Part 7 Deal making: testing the waters deals to match projects development by consensus City Hall deal makers coping with crisis negotiable designs the relationship is the deal. Part 8 Getting and spending: 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. Part 9 Open for business: Faneuil Hall - marketing the unusual Pike Place - preserving the past town square - making the setting special Horton plaza - designing fantasies. Part 10 Popular success and critical dismay: fear of commerce artificial environments highbrows and lowbrows. Part 11 Privatizing the city: running risks - Burbank, St Paul, Detroit setup for scandal how public is a mall? security at a price the chaining of Main Street. Part 12 Marketplace contributions: uses of commercialism taming Times Square and Bryant Park School for Management the hiding hand selling Columbus Circle. Part 13 Downtown malls and the city agenda: corporate territory 250 Empire State buildings lodgings and lobbies conventioneers the gentry come to town stagecraft big league ambitions logic in the patchwork. Part 14 An unfinished renaissance: indicting City Hall manufacturing myths - New Yrok 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
Archaeology · Downtown · Geography · Finance, Markets, and Regulation · Globalization and Cultural Identity
The Process and Practice of Downtown Revitalization
Building Civic Capacity Through an Elastic Local State
Globalisation, Reterritorialisation and the Political Economy of Tourism Development in the Middle East
The built sport spectacle and the opacity of democracy
Global Best Practice or Regulating Fiction? Street Vending, Zero Tolerance and Conflicts Over Public Space in New York, 1980-2000
Old Mega-Projects Newly Packaged? Waterfront Redevelopment in Toronto
Contracts and Learning in Complex Urban Projects
The Indianapolis 'Fortune 500
Prestige Projects and Urban Regeneration in the 1980s and 1990s
Street vending and public policy
Entrepreneurial Urbanism and Business Improvement Districts in the State of Wisconsin
The “Magic of the Mall”
Festival Malls
Making Cities Work
Post‐Fordist City Politics
A Transaction Cost Theory of Planning
Urban Renewal and Its Aftermath
You gotta move
Beyond Polycentricity
Is Los Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable?
Challenges of an organizational approach to applied downtown market analysis
Space and Symbols in an Age of Decline
Assessing the contribution of cultural agglomeration in urban regeneration through developing cultural strategies
Fine Grain, Global City
Transcending the dilemma of “public interest”
Unintended consequences of the earthquake-prone building legislation
Shopping and Urbanity
Shopping centre morphologies in transition
Polish shopping malls attractiveness in the opinion of young consumers
An experiment in urban regeneration using culture and art in Senba, Osaka’s historic urban center, with a focus on the regeneration of urban space
How Americans Make Race
Midtowns, Megastructures, and World Cities
When the Global Meets the Local at the Mall
Is open space a magnet for business? A spatial analysis of New York
Exploring Policy-Maker Perceptions of Small City Downtowns in the USA
An Alternative Approach to Urban Economic Development
A Personal Commentary on the Perils of Multiple Authorship Even among Friends
Corporate Service Linkages in Large Metropolitan Areas
Urban Policy
City Intervention
Putting Cities on the National Agenda
From Whiteness to Colorblindness in Public Policies
Why does publicity matter? Power, not deliberation
Beyond Hope VI
A Tale of Two Urban Policies
American Cities and American Political Science—a Look at Thick Injustice
Forging Collective Capacity for Urban Redevelopment
Housing Demolition during Urban Renewal
The political economy of theme development in small urban places
A silver lining to white flight? White suburbanization and African–American homeownership, 1940–1980
The Textures of Property Markets
Critical mass matters
Defining a Public
Evaluating the Success of Urban Success Stories
Local Economic Development and the City
Managing the Changing Political Environment in Urban Waterfront Redevelopment
Embracing Locality in Local Economic Development
Testing O’Connor and Thomas
Negotiating for Public Benefits
The Regional Shopping Centre in the Inner City
La ville et le « spectacle
Property Rights, Taxpayer Rights, and the Multiscalar Attack on the State
Motivations and expectations in the planned visits to commercial public space post pandemic
Three generations of urban renewal policies
The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation
Real Estate History
Urban Development and Civic Community
Hotels as Civic Landmarks, Hotels as Assets
The Difference States Make
Buying into Downtown Revival
Downtown in the “New American City”
Iconic architecture and capitalist globalization
The artisan economy and post-industrial regeneration in the US
Dispersing the Crowd
From “Blighted” to “Historic
Multiple Eviction
Redevelopment, San Diego Style
Reconceiving Military Base Redevelopment
Political Divide, Weak Property Rights, and Infrastructure Provision
Cleveland reimaged
The Borderlands Mall
The Privatization of Downtown Public Space
Toward Urban-Oriented Shopping Center Development in the Post-Covid Era? Learning from Shopping Centers with Apple Store
From Racial Zoning to Community Empowerment
Up-Zoning New York City's Mixed-Use Neighborhoods
Form-Based Codes for Downtown Redevelopment
Is History Repeating Itself
Revisiting the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (Lani)
Neighborhood Regeneration
Re-Constructing Times Square
Institutional Influences on the Integration of Multilevel Governance and Spatial Policy in European City-Regions
An Argument for Slums
Cultural Hegemony as an Impediment to Urban Protest Movements
Privately owned parks in New Urbanist communities
Disneyfication of the Metropolis
Privatization
The hotel and the city
Bustbelt to Boomtown
Creating a Personality for Downtown
Conceptualizing Small Towns as Urban Places
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |