Community Renewal through Municipal Investment

Community Renewal through Municipal Investment
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781476609102
ISBN-13 : 1476609101
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Book Synopsis Community Renewal through Municipal Investment by : Roger L. Kemp

Download or read book Community Renewal through Municipal Investment written by Roger L. Kemp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local officials are making investment decisions to enhance the quality of life in their communities and to improve economic development conditions. These new programs are not municipal give-aways, or, as some call them, corporate welfare programs, but efforts to invest wisely in downtown areas and neighborhoods with the goal of revitalizing them, with the hope that business and commerce will follow. This work presents case studies from Atlanta, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Berkeley, Boulder, Cambridge, Charleston, Chattanooga, Chesterfield County, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, DuPont, Grand Forks, Hampton, Hartford, Hayward, Houston, Kansas City, Lake Worth, Little Rock, Madison, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Bedford, Newark, Oakland, Orlando, Petuluma, Portland, Saint Paul, Santa Monica, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. The case study topics include streetscapes, public plazas, museums, libraries, cultural parks, walkways and greenways, major infrastructure improvements, transit and transportation enhancements and other works.


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