Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2004 The or ad to redevelopment: New Urbanism, nostalgia, and the process of downtown revitalization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Jennifer Speights-Binet Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Speights-Binet, Jennifer, "The or ad to redevelopment: New Urbanism, nostalgia, and the process of downtown revitalization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana" (2004). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 89. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/89 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please
[email protected]. THE ROAD TO REDEVELOPMENT: NEW URBANISM, NOSTALGIA, AND THE PROCESS OF DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION IN BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Geography and Anthropology by Jennifer Speights-Binet B.S., Samford University, 1994 M.S., University of Edinburgh, 1998 May 2004 ©Copyright 2004 Jennifer Speights-Binet All rights reserved ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am extremely grateful to LSU’s Department of Geography and Anthropology and the Graduate School for financial support throughout my graduate work, including a Robert C. West award for research travel. I am also indebted to the offices of Plan Baton Rouge and the Downtown Development District for their primary role in the research for this dissertation.