Book Reviews: Holdouts!; Downtown Retail Development Conditions for Success and Project Profiles
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Harrison, Ted Olin
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
- Abstract
- Book reviews of the following: HOLDOUTS!: In the heart of most American planners, there is a deep respect for the efforts of preservation activists. Planners are famous (and infamous) for their advocacy of "interesting" and "diverse" forms of urban development. Buildings of historic and/or architectural significance are guarded zealously. Functional, but perhaps unattractive, retail centers serving the commercial needs of low and moderate income residents often find protection in public planning. This alliance of planners and preservationists is poorly regarded by members of the development community, however. Developers challenge the "professional schizophrenia" of the planning profession; advocates of a "city beautiful" and a "diverse city" urban form effect contradictory planning decisions and confused planning policy. Holdouts!, by Andrew Alpern and Seymore Durst illustrates this policy contradiction in the context of New York City's redevelopment process. It is a graphic study of development compromises and real estate failure caused by the tenacious, stubborn and sometimes gallant preservation efforts of property owners and public planners. Holdouts! is a survey of over fifty-seven cases in New York City where "frightened holdouts", "greedy holdouts", "professional holdouts" and "foolish holdouts" frustrated the planning and development efforts of the city's largest real estate concerns. DOWNTOWN RETAIL DEVELOPMENT: CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS AND PROJECT PROFILES: American planners would be poorer students and practitioners of real estate development without the efforts and publications of the Urban Land Institute. Among their most recent efforts is Downtown Retail Development; Conditions For Success and Project Profiles by J. Thomas Black, Libby Howland and Stuart Rogel. In this concise, yet comprehensive survey of retail development trends, strategies, and opportunties, the authors detail specific tools and policies available to public and private developers concerned with the revitalization of the nation's central business districts.
- Date of publication
- 1984
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- Journal Item
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- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 10
- Journal issue
- 2
- Page start
- 41
- Page end
- 42
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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