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		<title>Manville on Downtown Revitalization: What, How and Why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking a bit recently about downtown Los Angeles, which led in turn to my thinking about downtowns in general. Downtown revitalization is one of the oldest policy projects in urban planning and calls to rescue the downtown, or assertions that a city is nothing without a 24-hour downtown, are common in conversations about cities. So too is the idea that downtown is having a comeback. The American downtown, at long last, seems to be growing again. Fueled by loft conversions, the Los Angeles downtown is growing as well (which has led to a curious boom in stores devoted to dog-pampering).

Aside from dogs and their needs, what should planning researchers ask about when they ask about downtown? I can think of three broad questions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown Inc., Chinese Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a call from an LA Times reporter last week asking about the redevelopment of central city industrial sites for high density residential projects, especially in the San Francisco bay area. (Apparently, John Landis was out of reach.) More than one city, including Oakland, is facing significant opposition to such plans, based in part [...]]]></description>
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