Delimiting the Central Business District

In this district there are concentrated the city's biggest buildings, highest land values, and, generally, the greatest pedestrian and automobile traffic. The surrounding land and the activities thereon revolve around the Central Business District. The authors in this article want to present for what they say is the first time a comprehensive "standardized method of delimitation" in order to compare Central Business Districts and come to "a real knowledge of the content and functioning of this critical area" (189). The authors see this delimitation as primarily a geographical matter.

The authors find that the District is "far from homogeneous" and go on to explore variations in these Districts. They consider such elements as the peak land value intersection, the commercial core, the edge of the District, the District as a region, delimitation methods used by planning agencies (which the authors say are inadequate because they are not standardized). The authors' find that the literature on the District also is inadequate.

The authors go on to explore the significance and role of population, employment, pedestrian and traffi

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apebas for "inspiring, directing, facilitating, and regularizing squatter invasions when they see potential political gain" (455). One of the political outcomes of this set of circumstances is that the state is being decentralized and local politicians and communities are becoming increasingly powerful and significant in determining political realities. Godfrey explores another element of the effect of squatters, specifically environmental changes, and he concludes that The most serious long-term environmental problems associated with mining stem from mercury contamination, although short-term problems like malaria and sanitation also deserve attention. . . . Public policy would be better focused on ameliorating environmental problems, and on improving social services [because] . . . history shows that this resilient sector of independent miners cannot be eliminated, even by force. . . . (469). Both authors conclude that these squatter communities in areas surrounding mining enterprises are dynamic, resilient and at least semi-permanent. They advocate political land social planning which takes such squatter communities seriously and accept their presence. They do not argue for elimination of these communities, in part because the
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Approximate Word count = 1954
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)