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Revitalizing Urban Main Streets, Spring 2003
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- Abstract:
Workshop explores the integration of economic development and physical planning interventions to revitalize urban commercial districts. Covers: an overview of the causes of urban business district decline, revitalization challenges, and the strategies to address them; the planning tools used to understand and assess urban Main Streets from both physical design and economic development perspectives; and the policies, interventions, and investments used to foster urban commercial revitalization. Students apply the theories, tools and interventions discussed in class to preparing a formal neighborhood commercial revitalization plan for a client business district.
- Subject:
- Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Collection:
- MIT OpenCourseWare