Pioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships that have revitalized the downtowns of such cities as Boston, San Diego, Seattle, St. Paul, and Pasadena.
Downtown, Inc. is a solid book with plenty of background… [Its] densely detailed case studies celebrate flexibility and innovation on both sides of the increasingly blurry public-private debate.—Harold Henderson, Planning—
Downtown, Inc. represents the most insightful commentary on up-to-the-minute urban development that has appeared to date. Moreover, this is a book in which the words ‘government’ and ‘successful’ actually appear in the same sentence.