Main street transformed: Community sense of place for nonmetropolitan tourism business districts

Urban Geography

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 609-639

  Paradis, Thomas W ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Downtown redevelopment; Main street; Sense of place; Small town; Tourism business district (TBD)

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; SENSE OF PLACE; SMALL TOWN; TOURISM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034458712     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.21.7.609     Document Type: Article

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