Cities in Full: Recognizing and Realizing the Great Potential of Urban America
by Steve Belmont
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Author: Steve BelmontEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03
ISBN: 1884829538
Number of pages: 536
Publisher: Planners Press American Planning Association
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Many American cities have blighted urban areas. Belmont offers possible remedies, to revitalise these cores. He rails against what he terms irrational decentralisation. Some types of land usages, like offices, lead naturally to high density buildings. These can make sense being located in a dense central business district of a town. He also argues against the concept of edge cities. In part because these might increase automobile dependence.
Some of his arguments may be contentious to others. Especially about edge cities. These have been advocated in part to reduce commute times. By letting workers avoid travelling far to one central city core, if edge cities develop a diversified set of jobs.
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