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Five Downtown Strategies: Policy Discourse and Downtown Planning Since 1945

Part of: JPH 30th Anniversary Most Cited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Carl Abbott
Carl Abbott
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Portland State University
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Americans have planned for their downtowns within a continually changing framework of images and assumptions about the nature of central business districts. During each decade since World War II, discussion of downtown problems and possibilities has been dominated by a distinct set of assumptions that has conditioned academic research, federal policy, and local planning. From decade to decade, experts on downtowns have chosen different themes as central to the interpretation of downtown growth, change, and policy needs. As the understanding of the situation has changed, so have the preferred planning solutions and public interventions.

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Journal of Policy History , Volume 5 , Special Issue 1: Urban Public Policy: Historical Modes and Methods , January 1993 , pp. 5 - 27
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1993

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