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Nashville’s Lower Broadway: Preservation and Playscapes in Urban Environment. (2005) Directed by Patrick Lee Lucas. 142 pp. This investigation assesses
the evolution of Nashville, Tennessee’s Lower Broadway in the
last quarter of the 20th century. As an American streetscape, the area
evolved from a heavily blighted street with the loss of the Grand Ole
Opry in the mid 1970s to a family-friendly tourist attraction by the
mid 1990s. In order to investigate the many changes that occurred over
a 20-year period, the research consists of preservation theory, urban
economics, and how tourism and entertainment have shaped and continue
to shape Lower Broadway. The research reveals the various ways in which
preservationists, city staff and private investors achieved substantial
revitalization and demonstrates the ways in which historic preservation
and entertainment commingle to bring about lasting renewal for the
urban environment.
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