Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities.

Abstract

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?.