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COPYRIGHT 2005 JCG Press
America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? By Larry R. Ford. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Preface, introduction, notes, and index, vii+340 pp. $45.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-8018-7163-8.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the downtowns of America's cities, Larry Ford provides a compilation of his empirical observations and insights, greatly expanding our understandings of central urban spaces. Ford has a romantic eye for downtown and imagines the ideal places and functions that should exist there. While the analysis of the social and economic conditions that shape the (post)modern downtown is worth pursuing, Ford wants...
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