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Walkable Cities

Walkable Cities

Revitalization, Vibrancy, and Sustainable Consumption

Carlos J. L. Balsas

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

2019 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Balsas, Carlos J. L., 1971 author.

Title: Walkable cities : revitalization, vibrancy and sustainable consumption across the Atlantic ocean / Carlos J. L. Balsas.

Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018052657 | ISBN 9781438476278 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438476292 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Urban renewalUnited States. | Urban renewalEurope. | Sustainable urban developmentUnited States. | Sustainable urban developmentEurope. | WalkingUnited States. | WalkingEurope.

Classification: LCC HT175 .B356 2019 | DDC 307.3/4160973dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052657

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Abbreviations

3Rs	reduction, recycling, and reuse
BID	business improvement district
CCA	centro comercial abierto
CNG	compressed natural gas
CU	commercial urbanism
DCP	Department of city planning
EEC	European Economic Community
ENDS	National sustainable development strategy
EU	European Union
GTL	Technical advisory committee
HORECA	hotel, restaurant, and cafeteria sector
IDB	Inter-American Development Bank
LULU	local unwanted land use
MSC	medium- and small-size Iberian cities
NIMBY	not in my back yard
NYCDOT	New York City Department of Transportation
PAYT	pay as you throw
PERSU	Strategic plan for urban waste
PNPOT	National Program of Territorial Management Policy
SRU	urban rehabilitation societies
TCM	town center management schemes
UAC	unidade de acompanhamento e coordenao
UK	United Kingdom
US	United States
WB	World Bank

Acknowledgments

Multiple chapters of this book were presented in various forms at scholarly and professional conferences. Specifically, parts of were presented as a keynote speech entitled Urbanismo comercial: Mitos e boas prticas na revitalizao de centros urbanos at the International Conference of the Research Center on the Technology of Architecture and UrbanismNUTAU02 at the University of So Paulo, Brazil. A revised article based on the proceedings paper was subsequently published in Sociedade e Territrio: Revista de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais in 2003.

An earlier version of was presented as Walking and Urban Vibrancy: An International Review of Commercial Pedestrian Precincts to the IIIrd Seminrio Internacional Cidade , Comrcio Urbano e Consumo in So Paulo, Brazil, in 2012 and published in a subsequent issue of the journal Cidades.

was presented at the 2008 Conference Comrcio e Cidade: Uma Relao de Origem (CinCci) in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAUP) at the University of So Paulo (USP) and appeared in Portuguese in urbe: Revista Brasileira de Gesto Urbana in 2017. The chapter benefited from additional field work research in Phoenix at the end of 2015. I would like to thank urbe s editors for suggesting the publication of this research in English.

An earlier version of was presented as Urbanismo Comercial, Consumo e Resduos to the sixth International Seminar City, Retail and Consumption at the University of Lisbon in 2017. Finally, some of the recommendations presented in the conclusion were initially distilled in the authors dissertation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

I would like to thank the Universidade de So Paulo, Editora Afrontamento, Universidade Estadual Paulista Jlio de Mesquita Filho, Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Paran , Manchester Metropolitan University, Pozna University of Economics, and the Gabinete de Estudos e Prospectiva Econmica do Ministrio da Economia (GEPE) for publishing some of the aforementioned original materials and partially updated in this book. Unless otherwise noted, illustrations are my own.

I would also like to thank the following colleagues, friends, and family for their conference invitations, readings of earlier versions of these chapters, sponsoring some of the research and travel, and providing logistical and emotional support: Heliana Comin Vargas, Lineu Castello, Teresa Barata Salgueiro, Herculano Cachinho, Joo Freitas, Maria Marques, Magarida Pereira, Jos Teixeira, Jos Fernandes, Silvana Pintaudi, Sidney Vieira, Jos Gasca, Duarte Silva, John Mullin, Zenia Kotval, Meir Gross, Piper Gaubatz, Jos Lcio, Sherry Ahrentzen, Katherine Crewe, Hemalata Dandekar, John Meunier, Tom Angotti, Nan Ellin, Paulo Pinho, Jos Gavinha, Richard Smardon, Carlos Rodrigues, Artur da Rosa Pires, Miriam Fujita, Constantino Rodrigues, Maria da Luz, and Jos Carlos. I would also like to thank the participants at the various conferences where this research was presented, the two anonymous manuscript reviewers, and the acquisitions editor, Michael Rinella, for their thoughtful and encouraging comments.

Introduction

Retail is one of the most dynamic economic sectors in cities with important impacts on the habitability of urban areas. Traditionally, city centers have occupied a privileged position in the urban hierarchy of city functions. However, with the suburbanization of housing and jobs, soon, thereafter, retailing also relocated to the suburbs from the downtowns CBDs. Although this phenomenon has been occurring in the United States practically since the end of World War II, this trend was only experienced in Southern European countries much more recently. Furthermore, the scale of an agglomeration tends to dictate the number of subcenters and their relationships, usually via higher-density developments near expressway interchanges and railroad/subway stations.

This book is concerned with the revitalization of city centers in cities of various sizes across the Atlantic Ocean. The main research assumption is that the automobile has been greatly responsible for enabling the relocation of households and families to the suburbs. The building of highways and expressways facilitated regular movement between suburbs and central areas and among peripheral neighborhoods, in certain cases even without the need to drive through the center of town. An automobile-centric lifestyle has had devastating consequences for city centers. Directly and indirectly, city centers had to create space for the increasing number of vehicles passing through and, in most cases, demanding parking at relatively low costs. With the building of suburban shopping malls and commercial plazas, incrementally, city centers began losing their centrality as marketplaces. This cycle of decline has been discussed extensively in the literature.

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