The Changing Role of Downtowns: An Examination of the Condition of Cities and Methods to Reinvent the Urban Core

Downtowns across America have changed as a result of suburbanization. Population shifts and changing land consumption patterns caused by advancements in technology, such as the Interstate and the Internet, along with social and economic factors, alter downtown development. The city, and particularly...

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Main Author: Byrd, Kevin Ryan
Other Authors: Urban Affairs and Planning
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9949
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05242004-154534