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Chasing the Buffalo Off of Main Street: The Evaluation of Economic Vitality in Rural High Plains Towns.

Chasing the Buffalo Off of Main Street: The Evaluation of Economic Vitality in Rural High Plains Towns.

Rolander-Peterson, Heidi

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ISBN10: 1243423668
ISBN13: 9781243423665
Publisher: Proquest Umi Dissertation Pub
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.38 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This study is an examination of how prolific the transformation of the rural small town (population between 1000 and 5000 persons) and Main Street has been since 1950. The study uses established criteria including population, density, age, and downtown vacancy to examine the vitality of the rural downtown. The research is divided into several components including a comprehensive literature review of the data and analysis recorded by writers and scholars over the last one hundred years. Encompassed in the literature review is description of what elements of commerce, infrastructure, buildings and business compose the small town downtown followed by data collected for an original index of vitality. The study sought to determine the relationship between the vitality of the downtown business core and the implementation of economic development plans and concluded that based on the data collected and statistical analysis of that data that a definitive conclusion could not be reached. The study did reveal that population loss on the high plains on the United States is more prevalent in the hinterlands than in small towns themselves. It can also be concluded that in addition to the data collected town assets, human capital, economic development plans, entrepreneurship, and human capital may impact the vitality of rural Main Street.

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