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Re-Connecting: Revitalizing Downtown Clearwater With Environmental Sensibility, Diego Duran
Re-Connecting: Revitalizing Downtown Clearwater With Environmental Sensibility, Diego Duran
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Many downtowns in North America have been severed from the rest of the city and from the contextual relationship to their surroundings. Sundered from their context, the ecological characteristics of a site are frequently taken for granted, and the disengagement of its public spaces erodes the downtown's character as well as the urban fabric.
Downtown Clearwater has lost the vitality and vibrancy that once characterized it as a lively district. Because of recent developments in the downtown area, public spaces have been lost between parking lots, high rises and a small number of sporadic residential pockets. Some of the most …