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Rhode Island College

1989

Capital city; central places; city blocks; city planning; commercial streets; community interests; community investment; contemporary city; dead downtown; downtown; downtown improvement; downtown revitalization; model cities; neighborhoods; urban development; urban planning

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Providence Scores High Against Criteria For Vibrant Downtowns, Chester Smolski Jul 1989

Providence Scores High Against Criteria For Vibrant Downtowns, Chester Smolski

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"It has been nearly a generation since her thought-provoking and polemical The Death and Life of Great American Cities appeared, but some of the ideas expressed are still as valid as they were 28 years ago.

The second of the five major books that Jane Jacobs has written is the one that captured the imagination of the public and caused planners to rethink, argue and debate many of the policies and practices they had come to accept as immutable."