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| detroit central business district: Central Business District, the Murphy, 1958 The rapidly changing structure of urban social and economic activity in recent years has given rise to a great deal of concern regarding the fate of that area of the city where economic activity is chiefly concentrated: the central business district (CBD). This book, a geographic study of the changing nature of CBDs, represents a concise, well-ordered, and readable attempt to deal with that concern. Written by a widely known authority on the subject, it provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of much of the research done on CBDs over the past two decades and establishes many striking generalizations regarding the past, present and future evolutions of CBDs, both in this country and abroad. Using maps and diagrams where helpful, Murphy, a pioneer researcher in this field from the standpoint of economic geography, provides the record of his own and others' attempts to define CBDs and to develop theories about them. He not only presents the story of the research attack on the CBDs of a number of cities, including estimates of their probable future, but also details a practicable technique for delimiting and studying CBDs. An important feature of the book is the attention Murphy devotes to the valuable work done in this field outside America, and his examples, which fully cover the American experience, are by no means confined to it, taking in important urban centres throughout the world. This book, intended for anyone interested in the urban scene, will be particularly helpful to students and teachers of urban geography and to practicing urban planners. Raymond E. Murphy received his B.S. from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at the University of Kentucky, Pennsylvania State University, and for many years in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Massachusetts. He has contributed numerous articles to geographical literature and is the author of several books. He was also editor of Economic Geography. |
| detroit central business district: Central Business District Statistics United States. Bureau of the Census, 1956 |
| detroit central business district: Detroit Master Plan of Policies: Central business district Detroit (Mich.) Planning Dept, 1985 |
| detroit central business district: Census of Business, 1958: Central Business District Statistics United States. Bureau of the Census, 1958 |
| detroit central business district: The Central Business District Raymond E. Murphy, 2017-07-05 The rapidly changing structure of urban social and economic activity in recent years has given rise to a great deal of concern regarding the fate of that area of the city where economic activity is chiefly concentrated: the central business district (CBD). This book, a geographic study of the changing nature of CBDs, represents a concise, well-ordered, and readable attempt to deal with that concern. Written by a widely known authority on the subject, it provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of much of the research done on CBDs over the past two decades and establishes many striking generalizations regarding the past, present and future evolutions of CBDs, both in this country and abroad.Using maps and diagrams where helpful, Murphy, a pioneer researcher in this field from the standpoint of economic geography, provides the record of his own and others' attempts to define CBDs and to develop theories about them. He not only presents the story of the research attack on the CBDs of a number of cities, including estimates of their probable future, but also details a practicable technique for delimiting and studying CBDs.An important feature of the book is the attention Murphy devotes to the valuable work done in this field outside America, and his examples, which fully cover the American experience, are by no means confined to it, taking in important urban centres throughout the world. This book, intended for anyone interested in the urban scene, will be particularly helpful to students and teachers of urban geography and to practicing urban planners. |
| detroit central business district: Central Business District Study , 1968 |
| detroit central business district: Detroit Joe Darden, 1990-06-28 Hub of the American auto industry and site of the celebrated Riverfront Renaissance, Detroit is also a city of extraordinary poverty, unemployment, and racial segregation. This duality in one of the mightiest industrial metropolises of twentieth-century North America is the focus of this study. Viewing the Motor City in light of sociology, geography, history, and planning, the authors examine the genesis of modern Detroit. They argue that the current situation of metropolitan Detroit—economic decentralization, chronic racial and class segregation, regional political fragmentation—is a logical result of trends that have gradually escalated throughout the post-World War II era. Examining its recent redevelopment policies and the ensuing political conflicts, Darden, Hill, Thomas, and Thomas, discuss where Detroit has been and where it is going. In the series Comparative American Cities, edited by Joe T. Darden. |
| detroit central business district: Mapping Detroit June Manning Thomas, Henco Bekkering, 2015-03-16 Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit's history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history. |
| detroit central business district: Hearings United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia, 1968 |
| detroit central business district: Parking Facilities United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Special Investigating Subcommittee, 1968 |
| detroit central business district: Redevelopment and Race June Manning Thomas, 2013-04-15 In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet despite their efforts, Detroit was rapidly transforming into a notorious symbol of urban decay. In Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas takes a look at what went wrong, demonstrating how and why government programs were ineffective and even destructive to community needs. In confronting issues like housing shortages, blight in older areas, and changing economic conditions, Detroit's city planners worked during the urban renewal era without much consideration for low-income and African American residents, and their efforts to stabilize racially mixed neighborhoods faltered as well. Steady declines in industrial prowess and the constant decentralization of white residents counteracted planners' efforts to rebuild the city. Among the issues Thomas discusses in this volume are the harmful impacts of Detroit's highways, the mixed record of urban renewal projects like Lafayette Park, the effects of the 1967 riots on Detroit's ability to plan, the city-building strategies of Coleman Young (the city's first black mayor) and his mayoral successors, and the evolution of Detroit's federally designated Empowerment Zone. Examining the city she knew first as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University and later as a scholar and planner, Thomas ultimately argues for a different approach to traditional planning that places social justice, equity, and community ahead of purely physical and economic objectives. Redevelopment and Race was originally published in 1997 and was given the Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 1999. Students and teachers of urban planning will be grateful for this re-release. A new postscript offers insights into changes since 1997. |
| detroit central business district: Parking Facilities United States. Congress. House. The District of Columbia, 1968 |
| detroit central business district: Hearings United States. Congress. House, 1968 |
| detroit central business district: Detroit Downtown People Mover , 1980 |
| detroit central business district: Dream City Conrad Kickert, 2019-06-11 Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit. Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an astonishing rebirth. Its sidewalks have become a dreamland for an aspiring creative class, filled with shoppers, office workers, and restaurant-goers. Cranes dot the skyline, replacing the wrecking balls seen there only a few years ago. But venture a few blocks in any direction and this liveliness gives way to urban blight, a nightmare cityscape of crumbling concrete, barbed wire, and debris. In Dream City, urban designer Conrad Kickert examines the paradoxes of Detroit's landscape of extremes, arguing that the current reinvention of downtown is the expression of two centuries of Detroiters' conflicting hopes and dreams. Kickert demonstrates the materialization of these dreams with a series of detailed original morphological maps that trace downtown's rise, fall, and rebirth. Kickert writes that downtown Detroit has always been different from other neighborhoods; it grew faster than other parts of the city, and it declined differently, forced to reinvent itself again and again. Downtown has been in constant battle with its own offspring—the automobile and the suburbs the automobile enabled—and modernized itself though parking attrition and land consolidation. Dream City is populated by a varied cast of downtown power players, from a 1920s parking lot baron to the pizza tycoon family and mortgage billionaire who control downtown's fate today. Even the most renowned planners and designers have consistently yielded to those with power, land, and finances to shape downtown. Kickert thus finds rhyme and rhythm in downtown's contemporary cacophony. Kickert argues that Detroit's case is extreme but not unique; many other American cities have seen a similar decline—and many others may see a similar revitalization. |
| detroit central business district: United States Census of Business: 1954: Retail trade, summary statistics.- v. 2. Retail trade, area statistics. pt. 1. United States summary and Alabama-Mississippi. pt. 2. Missouri-Wyoming and Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Virgin Islands United States. Bureau of the Census, 1957 |
| detroit central business district: Downtown People Mover, Detroit, Michigan United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1980 |
| detroit central business district: Public Transportation Alternatives Analysis in Wayne/Oakland/Macomb Counties , 1979 |
| detroit central business district: Panel on Science and Technology, Tenth Meeting Panel on Science and Technology. Meeting, 1969 Committee Serial No. 1. Considers papers presented by panel members on research in urban planning and development. |
| detroit central business district: Elmwood III Development, Detroit , 1978 |
| detroit central business district: United States Census of Business, 1954: Retail trade-summary statistics (11 sheets) , 1957 |
| detroit central business district: I-94 Rehabilitation Project, Detroit, Wayne County , 2004 |
| detroit central business district: The Bahá’í Faith and African American History Loni Bramson, 2021-09-09 This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bahá’ís in America have actively worked to establish interracial harmony within its own ranks and to contribute to social justice in the wider community, becoming in the process one of the country’s most diverse religious bodies. Spanning from the start of the twentieth century to the early twenty-first, the essays in this volume examine aspects of the phenomenon of this religion confronting America’s original sin of racism and the significant roles African Americans came to play in the development of the Bahá’í Faith’s culture, identity, administrative structures, and aspirations. |
| detroit central business district: Internal Revenue Service Facility, Detroit , 1991 |
| detroit central business district: Panel on Science and Technology, Tenth Meeting: Science & Technology and the Cities, Proceedings ... 91-1, February 4-6, 1969, [1]. United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics, 1969 |
| detroit central business district: Large Corporations and Urban Employment United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City, 1978 |
| detroit central business district: Detroit, Cobo Hall Expansion Project , 1985 |
| detroit central business district: Housing Urban America E. Jay Howenstine, 2017-09-04 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition both in the president's cabinet and the college curriculum.The editors of this book have updated their acclaimed earlier collection, providing new introductory articles; new papers, such as, Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending, ASummary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; and a new bibliography of the literature.Additional chapters focus on differing strategies for improved urban housing and renewal by providing concrete suggestions for distributing existing resources and allocating new funding. The bibliography provides the best single guide to the current literature on housing. Housing Urban America, in this new edition, is an important guide to those students and scholars fascinated by the essential questions of adequate housing: its social costs, and the source of the revenues to provide it. |
| detroit central business district: Readings in Urban Analysis Robert W. Lake, 2017-07-05 This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis. The field of urban analysis is characterized by the multiplicity of approaches, philosophies, and methodologies employed in the examination of urban structure and urban problems. This fragmentation of perspectives is not simply a reflection of the multifaceted and complex nature of the city as subject matter. Nor is it a function of the variety of disciplines such as geography, planning, economics, history, and sociology. Cross-cutting all of these issues and allegiances has been the emergence in recent years of a debate on fundamental issues of philosophy, ideology, and basic assumptions underlying the analysis of urban form and structure. The notion of urban analysis Robert W. Lake discusses focuses on the spatial structure of the city, its causes, and its consequences. At issue is the city as a spatial fact: a built environment with explicit characteristics and spatial dimensions, a spatial distribution of population and land uses, a nexus of locational decisions, an interconnected system of locational advantages and disadvantages, amenities and dis-amenities. Beginning with landmark articles in neo-classical and ecological theory, the reader covers the latest departures and developments. Separate sections cover political approaches to locational conflict, institutional influences on urban form, and recent Marxist approaches to urban analysis. Among the topics included are community strategies in locational conflict, the political economy of place, the role of government and the courts, institutional influences in the housing market, and the relationship between urban form and capitalist development. This is a valuable introductory text for courses in urban planning, urban geography, and urban sociology. |
| detroit central business district: Census of Business, 1954: Final Volumes United States. Bureau of the Census, 1954 |
| detroit central business district: Annual Report United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1956 |
| detroit central business district: Hearings United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1958 |
| detroit central business district: Housing Act of 1958 United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee, 1958 |
| detroit central business district: Special Report - Highway Research Board National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board, 1954 |
| detroit central business district: Transportation Planning and Priorities for the Seventies United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation, 1974 |
| detroit central business district: Transportation Planning and Priorities for the Seventies, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation of ... United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works, 1974 |
| detroit central business district: Bidding for Business John Edwin Anderson, Robert W. Wassmer, 2000 Annotation Anderson and Wassmer (economics, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln and public policy and administration, California State U.-Sacramento, respectively) examine the use and effectiveness of local economic development incentives within a region or metropolitan area through a case examination of Detroit, Michigan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
| detroit central business district: Housing Act of 1958 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1958 |
| detroit central business district: Detroit After Bankruptcy Joe Darden, 2023-07-31 Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and policy-makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a ‘new beginning’. This book analyses whether Detroit’s patterns of inequality on race and class lines still exist and whether the city is truly reversing its decline. |
| detroit central business district: Postwar Urban America John F. McDonald, 2014-12-17 This unique and inexpensive book provides a demographic and economic history of urban America over the last 65 years. The growth and decline of most northern cities is contrasted with the steady growth of western and southern cities. Various urban government policies are explored, including federal, state, and local policies. There is a chapter focusing on Detroit and its rapid decline toward bankruptcy and its recent strategies to slow recovery. The final two chapters speculate on what's next for urban America and gives suggestions for stimulating growth. |
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