Download or read book Michigan Avenue Retail Revitalization Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Michigan Avenue Revitalization Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan provides a catalyst for economic and aesthetic revitalization of East Michigan Avenue in Lansing. Includes a streetscape plan also.
Download or read book Retail Market Analysis South Michigan Avenue Roseland written by Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greater North Michigan Avenue Association Presents the General Development Plan for the Near Northside of Chicago written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago s North Michigan Avenue written by John W. Stamper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-08-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that solidified its character and economic base, describing the initiation of the planning process by private interests to its execution aided by the city's powerful condemnation and taxation proceedings. He focuses on individual buildings constructed on the avenue, including the Renaissance- and Gothic-inspired Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and Drake Hotel, and places them within the context of factors governing their construction—property ownership, financing, zoning laws, design theory, and advertising. Stamper compares this stylistically diverse mixture of low- and high-rise structures with earlier, rejected planning proposals, all of which had prescribed a uniformly designed, European-like avenue of continuous cornice heights, consistent facade widths, and complementary stylistic features. He analyzes the drastically different character the avenue took by 1930, with high-rise towers reaching thirty stories and beyond, in terms of the clash among economic, political, and architectural interests. His argument—that the discrepancies between the rejected plans and reality illustrate the developers' choice of economic return on their investment over aesthetic community—is extended through to the present avenue and the virtual disregard of the urban qualities proposed at its inception. Generously illustrated, with an epilogue condensing the avenue's history between the end of World War II and the present, this is an exhaustive account of an important topic in the history of modern architecture and city planning.
Download or read book Downtown Retail Development written by James Thomas Black and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reimagining Retail written by Camellia Minervini and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerated by the pandemic, the retail vacancy rate in Chicago’s Loop rose to nearly 30% in 2022, having doubled since 2019. Landlords have struggled to lease large retail spaces, many sitting empty for over a year. These vacancies have had a profound impact on the experience and identity of the Loop, especially on South State Street, where blocks-long stretches of shuttered storefronts have stifled the vibrancy of an important commercial hub. On the horizon, there is some hope of a partial repopulation of office workers thanks to Google’s plan to open an office in the Thompson Center, and a new influx of residents due to residential conversion efforts on LaSalle Street. It is clear, though, that even in a pre-pandemic market, large box retail spaces had been losing viability due to the prevalence of e-commerce and a changing relationship to in-person shopping. In order to revitalize these empty commercial areas for the enjoyment of residents, professionals, and tourists, and to generate revenue (and sales tax), new configurations must be considered for vacant ground-level retail spaces. This project proposes a business incubator model for the reuse and revitalization of vacant retail space in Chicago’s Loop.
Download or read book 900 North Michigan written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brochure for retail space in 900 North Michigan building.
Download or read book Urban Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Urban Retail Planning and Development written by Robert J. Gibbs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Extraordinary: Gibbs has popped the hood and taken apart the engine of commercial design and development, showing us each individual part and explaining fit, form and function." —Yaromir Steiner, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Steiner + Associates "...the most comprehensive and expansive book ever written on the subject of Retail Real Estate Development. Gibbs is by far the most prominent advocate for reforming retail planning and development in order to return American cities to economic and physical prominence." –Stefanos Polyzoides, Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists The retail environment has evolved rapidly in the past few decades, with the retailing industry and its placement and design of "brick-and-mortar" locations changing with evolving demographics, shopping behavior, transportation options and a desire in recent years for more unique shopping environments. Written by a leading expert, this is a guide to planning for retail development for urban planners, urban designers and architects. It includes an overview of history of retail design, a look at retail and merchandising trends, and principles for current retail developments. Principles of Urban Retail Planning and Development will: Provide insight and techniques necessary for historic downtowns and new urban communities to compete with modern suburban shopping centers. Promote sustainable community building and development by making it more profitable for the shopping center industry to invest in historic cities or to develop walkable urban communities. Includes case studies of recent good examples of retail development
Download or read book Washington DC State of Affairs written by Abdul Karim Bangura and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is our third in a series of books dealing with Washington, DC. We examine the state of affairs in DC, because it is vital to know the conditions under which the residents of the most powerful city in the world live, based on sound empirical evidence. The topics examined include race and ethnic relations, education, community development, religion and spirituality, diplomatic missions, labor force, and political participation.
Download or read book Retail Change written by Rosemary D.F. Bromley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic, social and environmental implications of recent changes in retailing constitute significant contemporary issues, which are the focus of this timely book. Retail change deals with the internationalization of retailing, the development of shopping centres in the city and at suburban sites, and the growth of leisure shopping. It provides an up-to-date review of the central questions faced by undergraduate students in planning, business studies and geography. The retail environment of developed economies has undergone revolutionary change since the 1970s, and the process is far from over. In the book the major elements central to contemporary retail change are developed across the whole spectrum of spatial scales relevant to present-day society. The first part adopts an economic perspective and focuses on the process of business concentration and its increasingly international orientation. This is followed by analyses of change in the urban region, concentrating on the emergence of the great variety of new retail forms associated with retail decentralization. The planning implications of retail change are developed in the third part. The future of the city-centre and other traditional shopping centres is examined in the light of challenges presented by new facilities. Alternative future scenarios contingent upon laisser-faire or interventionist government policy controls are also discussed. The social implications of retail change are developed in the final section. All students and researchers concerned with the evolution and development of the retail sector of advanced economies will welcome this book as an authoritative source of contemporary findings and commentary. Rosemary D. Bromley and Colin J. Thomas are Lecturers in Geography at the University College of Swansea, Wales.. This book is intended for undergraduate students taking courses in economic geography and retailing in departments of geography, business studies, planning, etc.
Download or read book No Miracles Here written by Theodore J. Gilman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares urban revitalization efforts in two cities with failing industrial bases, one in the United States and the other in Japan.
Download or read book North Michigan Avenue written by John W. Stamper and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dream City written by Conrad Kickert and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit. Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an astonishing rebirth. Its sidewalks have become a dreamland for an aspiring creative class, filled with shoppers, office workers, and restaurant-goers. Cranes dot the skyline, replacing the wrecking balls seen there only a few years ago. But venture a few blocks in any direction and this liveliness gives way to urban blight, a nightmare cityscape of crumbling concrete, barbed wire, and debris. In Dream City, urban designer Conrad Kickert examines the paradoxes of Detroit's landscape of extremes, arguing that the current reinvention of downtown is the expression of two centuries of Detroiters' conflicting hopes and dreams. Kickert demonstrates the materialization of these dreams with a series of detailed original morphological maps that trace downtown's rise, fall, and rebirth. Kickert writes that downtown Detroit has always been different from other neighborhoods; it grew faster than other parts of the city, and it declined differently, forced to reinvent itself again and again. Downtown has been in constant battle with its own offspring—the automobile and the suburbs the automobile enabled—and modernized itself though parking attrition and land consolidation. Dream City is populated by a varied cast of downtown power players, from a 1920s parking lot baron to the pizza tycoon family and mortgage billionaire who control downtown's fate today. Even the most renowned planners and designers have consistently yielded to those with power, land, and finances to shape downtown. Kickert thus finds rhyme and rhythm in downtown's contemporary cacophony. Kickert argues that Detroit's case is extreme but not unique; many other American cities have seen a similar decline—and many others may see a similar revitalization.
Download or read book The Best Laid Plans written by Randal O'Toole and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people think they know all the answers. They know how far you should live from your job. They know how big your backyard should be. They know how cities and forests should grow. Government planners claim to know all of that and more. They say that if you want to live in pleasant communities, enjoy beautiful wilderness, and get to work on time, you should put them in charge. But 30 years of research has convinced Randal O’Toole—one of Newsweek's top 20 “movers and shakers in the West”—that they’re wrong. In The Best-Laid Plans, he shows in case after case that government planning frequently causes the very problems it is intended to solve. Combining theory with case studies to underscore his analysis, O’Toole calls for repealing federal, state, and local planning laws and proposes reforms that can help solve social and environmental problems without heavy-handed government regulation. The Best-Laid Plans is a powerful challenge to the conventional wisdom about public lands, urban growth, and government planning.
Download or read book Near North Side General Redevelopment Plan written by Greater North Michigan Avenue Association (Chicago, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1953* with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
