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The American City: What Works, What Doesn't / Edition 3
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The American City: What Works, What Doesn't / Edition 3
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The American City: What Works, What Doesn't / Edition 3
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Nearly all of the book's 650 illustrations are now in full color and consist almost entirely of photographs, maps, and diagrams produced especially for the Third Edition. Garvin discusses major urban initiatives that have emerged over the past two decades, such as Chicago's Millennium Park, Houston's Uptown Business District, and Metropolitan Denver's FasTracks multicounty rapid transitnetwork. He reexamines the wide range of places and strategies covered in the previous edition, offering new analyses and insights. A new chapter on retrofitting the city for a modern commercial economy is included.
This practical guide presents six key ingredients of project successmarket, location, design, financing, time, and entrepreneurshipand explains how to combine these elements in a mutually reinforcing manner. Garvin demonstrates how the synthesis of individual and private-sector efforts, community-level action, and broad-based government policy canand hasachieved urban and suburban regeneration.