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<br /> Toolbox Home Enhancing Downtown's
<br /> Getting Started Sense of Place
<br /> Using the Toolbox
<br /> Source: Main Street News
<br /> Go to Tools Number 157, September 1999
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<br /> StKent. Cloud State UniPhversDity- Minnesota
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<br /> Why would a person
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<br /> oose your downtown as a destination
<br /> CaRDI with so many other alternatives available? Certainly many, if
<br /> not most, of the goods and services offered there can easily be
<br /> Cornell Cooperative obtained elsewhere.Your main street probably does not
<br /> Extension contain the large national chains, deep discount prices, or
<br /> acres of free parking that appeal to many customers.
<br /> Penn State
<br /> Cooperative The answer is a strong sense of place, a characteristic rarely
<br /> Extension associated with regional malls,big box retailers, or suburban
<br /> commercial corridors.
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<br /> „` A strong sense of place is vital to the health and propriety of a
<br /> The e ` 11 t downtown, especially in smaller cities. In this article, we'll
<br /> Ct) n tiz ni D yelaim look at three aspects of this issue:
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<br /> . What are the key elements of as e
<br /> nse of place and why
<br /> are they so essential to successful downtowns?
<br /> . What can commercial districts do to enhance their
<br /> sense of place?
<br /> . What role does the Main Street Approach play in
<br /> creating and reinforcing a strong sense of place.
<br /> • at is a sense of place?
<br /> What does h of place? 's
<br /> at eight key exactly elements it mean that are to pivotal a to sense a main strees Lett' sense
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<br /> http://www.cardi.cornell.edu/cd toolbox_2/tools/sense_of place.cfm
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