Downtown resilience: A review of recent (re)developments in Tempe, Arizona

Balsas, Carlos J. L.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2012.10.002

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“…The concept of resilience today is applicable to a variety of disciplines with different meanings, functions, and relevance [4][5][6]. From the evolutionary perspective of economic geography, the concept of adaptive resilience has been developed to represent the ability of regional or urban economic systems to undergo reorganization to facilitate recovery after a shock and to reset their growth path [1, 7,8].…”

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Regional Economic Resilience: Resistance and Recoverability of Resource-Based Cities during Economic Crises in Northeast China

Tan

Fang-dao

et al. 2017

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This paper quantitatively analyzes the economic resilience of resource-based cities (RBCs) in Northeast China in terms of resistance and recoverability during two economic crises: the Asian financial crisis and the global financial crisis. Moreover, it analyzes the main factors that affected regional resilience. There are three main findings. First, the RBCs in general demonstrated poor resistance during both recessions, but there were variations among the different types of RBCs. Petroleum and metal cities demonstrated the most resistance, whereas coal cities performed the worst. Second, the influential factors affecting economic resilience varied across the two economic cycles, but location advantage, research and development (R and D) intensity, foreign trade dependence ratio, and supporting policies had positive effects on resilience during both economic cycles, while the proportion of employed persons in resource industries had a negative effect. Industrial diversity had a weak and ambiguous effect on resilience. Third, the secondary industry was more resilient during the Asian financial crisis, but the tertiary industry was more resilient during the global financial crisis. This shift may be attributed to both the nature of the crises and the strength of the sectors at the time of the crises.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Economic Resilience: Resistance and Recoverability of Resource-Based Cities during Economic Crises in Northeast China

Tan

Fang-dao

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…Lillebye (2000) adds, more tangibly, that the streetscape encompasses the quality of the materials used and the street's level of maintenance. The issue of quality and maintenance is important, as downtowns go through cycles, and with down-cycles comes the need for physical and organizational strategies to regenerate a city's retail core as an attractive and competitive place (Balsas, 2014). This is important for both locals and visitors.…”

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Keeping it fresh: Revisiting an historic tourist city's streetscape improvement project

Litvin

Rosene

2018

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management

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“…A streetscape development in creating a walkable outdoor shopping environment is essential to enhance the attractive and enjoyable environment and simultaneously, improves the economic development opportunities [52][53][54][55]. As described by Lopez-Bonilla et al [15], a streetscape with a comfortable outdoor pedestrian environment in the commercial area can help in attracting visitors and enhance the economic development of that particular area as well.…”

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“…A mixed-use development of retail, office and housing is deliberated to create an outdoor shopping and commercial environment [53].…”

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A Sustainable Historic Waterfront Revitalization Decision Support Tool for Attracting Tourists

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Waterfront revitalization would be an effective strategy to preserve heritages, conserve the contaminated or abandoned site and inspire the identity and authenticity. However, there is no decision support tool to quantify and evaluate the sustainability accreditation of waterfronts in tourism attraction. This research aimed to identify the most potential waterfront typology in tourism attraction and develop the waterfront sustainable revitalization (SWR) index assessment model. The SWR index can assist policy makers and urban developers to analyze the heritage waterfronts using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The research found out the historic waterfront has the highest potential in tourism attraction among other typologies. And, pollution moderator is mostly important sub-criterion in tourism absorption (W C2.2 = 0.1294); followed by Identity (W C1.2 = 0.1272) and Safety and well-being (W C1.3 = 0.1043). The SWR index can be applied in any waterfronts in heritage cities around the world, while this research implemented it as a case study in Bandar Maharani, Muar, Malaysia. It resulted Bandar Maharani was ranked as grade C; means, usable waterfront to which extent environmental, social and physical revitalization are needed. The SWR index can be coupled with other decision-making methods in future, to reduce its inconsistencies and increasing accuracy.

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Downtown resilience: A review of recent (re)developments in Tempe, Arizona

Cited by 32 publications

References 37 publications

Regional Economic Resilience: Resistance and Recoverability of Resource-Based Cities during Economic Crises in Northeast China

Regional Economic Resilience: Resistance and Recoverability of Resource-Based Cities during Economic Crises in Northeast China

Keeping it fresh: Revisiting an historic tourist city's streetscape improvement project

A Sustainable Historic Waterfront Revitalization Decision Support Tool for Attracting Tourists

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