Download or read book The Buildings of Main Street written by Richard W. Longstreth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buildings of Main Street is the primary resource for interpreting commercial architectural style. Richard Longstreth, a renowned and respected author in the field of historic preservation, presents a useful survey of commercial architecture in urban America. He has developed a typology of architectural classification for commercial application in American towns across the United States. Likely to be enjoyed by both students and members of the general public seeking an introduction to commercial architecture, The Buildings of Main Streetmakes a significant and lasting contribution to American architectural history.
Download or read book Revitalizing Main Street written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metropolitan Revolution written by Bruce Katz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders – mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists – are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their communities more prosperous, and they're investing in infrastructure, making manufacturing a priority, and equipping workers with the skills they need. In The Metropolitan Revolution, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley highlight success stories and the people behind them. · New York City: Efforts are under way to diversify the city's vast economy · Portland: Is selling the "sustainability" solutions it has perfected to other cities around the world · Northeast Ohio: Groups are using industrial-age skills to invent new twenty-first-century materials, tools, and processes · Houston: Modern settlement house helps immigrants climb the employment ladder · Miami: Innovators are forging strong ties with Brazil and other nations · Denver and Los Angeles: Leaders are breaking political barriers and building world-class metropolises · Boston and Detroit: Innovation districts are hatching ideas to power these economies for the next century The lessons in this book can help other cities meet their challenges. Change is happening, and every community in the country can benefit. Change happens where we live, and if leaders won't do it, citizens should demand it. The Metropolitan Revolution was the 2013 Foreword Reviews Bronze winner for Political Science.
Download or read book Recast Your City written by Ilana Preuss and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.
Download or read book The Main Street program written by Christopher Andrew Murray and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 30 Years of Impact written by and published by Preservation Virginia. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, which was commissioned by Preservation Virginia and funded by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, documents the economic impacts of the Virginia Main Street Program, an approach to downtown revitalization that pursues economic development within the context of historic preservation. The Virginia Main Street program is one of 39 statewide Main Street coordinating programs in operation as of 2015, serving over 1,000 local Main Street communities in the United States.
Download or read book Main Street written by and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revitalizing Downtown written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revitalizing Downtown: What is the Main Street Approach to downtown revitalization? How can you use it to revitalize your commercial district? Learn about this strategy, which combines historic preservation and economic development in a grassroots organization, in this introductory primer for the downtown professional. Revitalizing Downtown will show you how to: 1. build on your commercial district?s assets through design; 2. expand business through economic restructuring; 3. develop a dynamic, image-building promotional program; and 4. launch an effective, credible organization. Revised and illustrated, Revitalizing Downtown is an essential tool for every revitalization program. 161 pages
Download or read book Main Street Success Stories written by Suzanne G. Dane and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio Main Street Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Main Street Center began in 1980. The purpose of a Main Street program is to encourage and support the revitalization of downtowns as centers of community activity and commerce. A strong viable organization provides the stability necessary to build and maintain a long term effort. Developing an organized management program that is well funded, structured and committed to the future is the only way to make revitalization last. The local Main Street program must involve groups and individuals from throughout the community in order to be successful. Downtown revitalization requires the cooperation and commitment of a broad-based coalition of businesses, civic groups, local governments, financial institutions and consumers. Some of the potential members are merchants, property owners, chamber of commerce, financial institutions, civic clubs, historic societies and historic preservation organizations, consumers, city and county government, regional planning commissions and council of government, schools, and the media. It also involves mobilizing a large number of volunteers to implement activities, but it must have the support and involvement of both the public and private sectors.
Download or read book Main Street Revisited written by Richard V. Francaviglia and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and idealized images. In Main Street Revisited, the first book to place the design of small downtowns in spatial and chronological context, Richard Francaviglia finds the sources of romanticized images of this archetype, including Walt Disney's Main Street USA, in towns as diverse as Marceline, Missouri, and Fort Collins, Colorado. Francaviglia interprets Main Street both as a real place and as an expression of collective assumptions, designs, and myths; his Main Streets are treasure troves of historic patterns. Using many historical and contemporary photographs and maps for his extensive fieldwork and research, he reveals a rich regional pattern of small-town development that serves as the basis for American community design. He underscores the significance of time in the development of Main Street's distinctive personality, focuses on the importance of space in the creation of place, and concentrates on popular images that have enshrined Main Street in the collective American consciousness.
Download or read book Main Street written by Linda S. Glisson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Main Street s Comeback written by Mary Means and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Main Street revitalization movement has been called the most effective economic development program in America, but it is so much more than that. Main Street's Comeback and How It Can Come Back Again tells the stories of how, over four decades, citizens, small business owners, and civic leaders in hundreds of towns and scores of city neighborhood corridors have brought life back to the heart of their communities. In offering a vision of how downtowns can emerge even stronger from the Coronavirus pandemic, Main Street's Comeback and How It Can Come Back Again could not be timelier.
Download or read book The California Main Street Program written by Craig William Hensley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards A National Main Street written by Christopher J. Willer and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Main Street Program is an organization composed of a large network of small towns and cities across the United States. Originating in 1977 as a pilot program through the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the program was established to preserve the historic character of main streets and to address a myriad of issues facing older, traditional downtowns during that time. The program utilizes its Four Point Approach, providing both a framework and social network to aid in the redevelopment and management of downtown cores in small cities and towns. This blueprint consists of guidelines on how to affect urban and community change within the realm of downtown via economic restructuring, urban design, organization among institutions, and place promotion. This dissertation seeks to identify: (1) how the Main Street Program emerged and diffused?;(2) how does the Main Street Program structure affect local challenges and placemaking efforts?; (3) does a geographical pattern exist among Main Street Programs' place aspirations?; and, (4) do Main Street Programs mimic other similar Main Street Programs, or do they aspire to other idyllic places - real or fictional?
Download or read book Kansas Main Street Program written by Kansas Main Street Program and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downtown Revitalization Through the Main Street Program written by Tracy A. St. Julien and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
