{"product_id":"shaping-a-city-2","title":"Shaping a City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePicture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. \u003c\/b\u003eWhat would you do?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShaping a City\u003c\/i\u003e is the behind-the-scenes story of one developer's involvement, from first buying and renovating small houses, gradually expanding his thinking and projects to include a recognition of the interdependence of the entire city—jobs, infrastructure, retail, housing, industry, taxation, banking and City Planning. It is the story of how he, along with other local developers transformed a quiet, economically challenged upstate New York town into one that is recognized nationally as among the best small cities in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lessons and principles of personal relationships, cooperation and collaboration, the importance of density, and the power of a Business Improvement District to catalyze change, are ones you can take home for the development and revitalization of your city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Mack Travis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573372911798,"sku":"9781501730153","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781501730153.jpg?v=1712135523","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/shaping-a-city-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}