The movement of businesses and people away from city centers led to the economic weakening of many downtown areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

The Cultural District is a fourteen block area of downtown that includes public spaces, art galleries and six major theaters.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

"More details just arrived. President Kennedy shot today, just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The circular painting was first shown in a circular building in downtown New York.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

City leaders reacted with transportation projects designed to support downtown development.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Downtown Chicago, the city's business center, is known as the Loop.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Much of the downtown area was rebuilt.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

It is in a convenient downtown location in the multi-story Wosk Center, which is part of Simon Fraser University.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

It's located near the Olympics venue for long track speed skating in Richmond, about a 30-minute drive south from downtown Vancouver.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Outside a former Bank of Montreal building in downtown Vancouver, two long lines snake their way up Granville Street.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

At Prasert Tangrukmuang's noodle shop in downtown Udon Thani, the only thing red is the broth he serves up.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Saturday,the Canadian,24,said he fed off the energy of the thousands of Canadian fans who flooded the downtown area the night before his race.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

One of the injured also died in the hospital. A downtown post office and market were destroyed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Outside the Hudson's Bay company store in downtown Vancouver, a line of people stretches down the block.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17