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DEFINING THE ROLE AND CHARACTER OF URBAN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS: MAIN STREET, CINCINNATI

JAIN, KRUTARTH H
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1093026911

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2004, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Community Planning.
Like other cities in the United States, Cincinnati is also struggling to reestablish its identity by revitalizing inner city neighborhoods and central business district through innovative economic strategies. Cincinnati downtown has few attractions like the river front stadiums, public open spaces, and art institutions; but they have failed to generate a critical mass needed to revitalize the downtown. To revitalize these areas, it is necessary to generate destinations, to attract critical mass across the region. Main Street is an emerging entertainment and art center of Cincinnati. A visionary urban design plan to redevelop Main Street as entertainment destination can contribute to revitalization efforts for Over-the-Rhine and central business district of Cincinnati. The main design question is how to define areas as entertainment districts within the given context, and more specifically what should be the role of these areas as urban entertainment districts. Urban design theories help to determine the design principles for character of place, scale, architecture, streetscape, landscape, vistas, and relationship with adjacent context. But to make the plan successful and effective, it is necessary to understand issues of their vitality, character, ability to change, type of economic forces, real estate dynamics, trends of regional market, etc. The objective of the thesis is to understand the phenomena of these complex and interrelated forces, and to determine the development process, which can help to define the role, character, and dynamics for Main Street Urban Entertainment District.
Menelaos Treantafillou (Advisor)
Entertainment Districs; Entertainment Centers; Main Street Cincinnati

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  • JAIN, K. H. (2004). DEFINING THE ROLE AND CHARACTER OF URBAN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS: MAIN STREET, CINCINNATI [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1093026911

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • JAIN, KRUTARTH. DEFINING THE ROLE AND CHARACTER OF URBAN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS: MAIN STREET, CINCINNATI. 2004. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1093026911.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • JAIN, KRUTARTH. "DEFINING THE ROLE AND CHARACTER OF URBAN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS: MAIN STREET, CINCINNATI." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1093026911

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