Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
State Convention and Trade Center Airspace Leasing, Seattle
Author: Convention Center Follies
Author: Heywood T. SandersPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812209303
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing from 40 million square feet in 1990 to 70 million in 2011—an increase of almost 75 percent. Proponents of these projects promised new jobs, new private development, and new tax revenues. Yet even as cities from Boston and Orlando to Phoenix and Seattle have invested in more convention center space, the return on that investment has proven limited and elusive. Why, then, do cities keep building them? Written by one of the nation's foremost urban development experts, Convention Center Follies exposes the forces behind convention center development and the revolution in local government finance that has privileged convention centers over alternative public investments. Through wide-ranging examples from cities across the country as well as in-depth case studies of Chicago, Atlanta, and St. Louis, Heywood T. Sanders examines the genesis of center projects, the dealmaking, and the circular logic of convention center development. Using a robust set of archival resources—including internal minutes of business consultants and the personal papers of big city mayors—Sanders offers a systematic analysis of the consultant forecasts and promises that have sustained center development and the ways those forecasts have been manipulated and proven false. This record reveals that business leaders sought not community-wide economic benefit or growth but, rather, to reshape land values and development opportunities in the downtown core. A probing look at a so-called economic panacea, Convention Center Follies dissects the inner workings of America's convention center boom and provides valuable lessons in urban government, local business growth, and civic redevelopment.
Central Link Light Rail Transit Project, Seattle, Tukwila and Seatac
Author: Pro File
Author: American Institute of ArchitectsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural firms
Languages : en
Pages : 2638
Book Description
Federal Courthouse Building (Project No. ZWA-81061), Seattle
Author: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
Author: Ray HutchisonPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412914329
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1081
Book Description
An encyclopedia about various topics relating to urban studies.
Downtown Transit Program Options, Seattle
Author: World Trade Regulation
Author: Eun Sup LeePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642311431
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The institutional and legal status of the WTO, with its integrated dispute settlement system, provides a framework for certainty, security and stability for trade as well as a coherent system to protect intellectual property rights. In all member countries and their respective enterprises, WTO regulations need to be considered when designing and implementing trade-related strategies for business operations in the integrated global market. This book aims at giving upper-level undergraduates and graduate students a comprehensive understanding of the public regulations related to international trade within the WTO mechanism and equip them, as potential policy makers and future practitioners in international trade, with the practical skills to interpret and apply the multilateral trade regulations as outlined by the WTO.
Urban Land
Author: Cities and the Arts
Author: Roger L. KempPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786420070
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Citizens, nonprofit organizations and local public officials--in increasing numbers--are using the arts and culture as vehicles to improve their downtowns, as well as to enhance general economic conditions within their communities. Public officials especially are learning that they can plant the seeds of urban renewal and, at the same time, promote their city's culture and arts. This not only renews their neighborhoods and downtowns, but also attracts tourists and private investment. A new eclectic economic development model has evolved and is beginning to work in a number of politically, economically, racially and culturally diverse communities throughout America. From Atlanta and Reno to Philadelphia and Seattle, this work includes numerous case studies that demonstrate the ways in which cities and towns are now using the arts to stimulate both downtown and neighborhood revitalization. The future of the arts in cities is also examined. Five appendices are included, as well: "Cities with Arts, Cultural, and/or Entertainment Districts in the United States," "Regional Resource Directory," "National Resource Directory," "National Directory of State Art Agencies," and "National Directory of Regional Arts Organizations."