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Physical and Environmental Geography

1977

Business growth; city planning; community interests; contemporary city; highways; malls; marketplace development; downtown revitalization; parking; overdevelopment; pedestrian traffic; plazas; retail; roads; shopping malls; shops; street scene; urban malls; urban transportation

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Providence Needs More Than Parking Space, Chester Smolski Mar 1977

Providence Needs More Than Parking Space, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The automobile has made us highly mobile. Today we think nothing of driving 30, 40 or 50 miles to do different kinds of shopping. The success of suburban malls attests to this fact: with good access from interstate and highways, these asphalt oases have sprung up like mushrooms throughout our suburban areas. And with few exceptions, they have successfully fulfilled the single function for which they were intended--retailing.