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A book that manages to turn what might be a dry policy report on downtown shopping malls into a study on the nature of American politics in the 1970s and 80s.Friedan basically contrasts the 1950s and 1960s urban renewal projects, which were funded by the federal government and bulldozed much of the old downtown, with the smaller, locally funded private-public partnerships that evolved in the 1970s to build downtown shopping malls and mixed-use office complexes. These projects were immensely more...
Yet another book to look at where we've come from and it captures well how much has been learned from various planning dpets across the country. This had detailed stories essentially of transforming downtown from business to shopping, and some of the history of downtowns. It had stories about pioneering places like Ghiradelli Square, Fanueil Hall and other specialty shopping that broke from the suburban mall mentality that developers had moved to. There was direct information from developers lik...
Currently re-reading this book and it's a great example of why applied case studies are still relevant a decade (okay, 2 decades) after they're done. It's good, good research.
