Abstrak
Telecommunications infrastructure has largely been ignored by city officials as it lies invisible as part of the city. Recent phenomena have demonstrated that by devising telecommunications infrastructure as a part of the tools to revitalize downtown, a city could develop several layers to attract people and businesses to return. The purpose of this study is to: identify the problem and magnitude of downtown revitalization, identify the trends and forces affecting the relationships between telecommunications infrastructure and the city, formulate effective strategies based on the trends and forces to revitalize downtown and develop guidelines for the implementation of these strategies in the case of Gary, Indiana.