The Main Street Approach Design Handbook
A handbook on how urban design principles can be used to improve economic development, placemaking, safety, and community.
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A handbook on how urban design principles can be used to improve economic development, placemaking, safety, and community.
Designing for the whole community, commercial district master planning, zoning basics, public improvements, managing traffic, and understanding parking.
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Building rehabilitation, taming teardowns, and historic preservation tools and incentives.
Environmental sustainability, economic vitality, and social well-being.
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A list of transformation strategies to guide your Main Street revitalization efforts.
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A short video explaining how the Main Street Approach can transform historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial corridors.
Learn how the nationwide Main Street network harnesses the Main Street Approach to transform communities.
Learn how the Main Street Approach gives communities a competitive advantage, resulting in reinvestment, new businesses, new jobs, and building rehabilitations.
Learn how to launch or strengthen your community engagement efforts, including actionable tools to put to use in your own community.
A short video showing the impact that the Main Street Approach has had to transform historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial corridors.