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  Key Magazine: Unlocking Urban Realities?

  Diana Lind | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new york city, suburbs, growth, foreclosure, diana lind, brooklyn, magazine, new york times, real estate, key magazine | 3

  This past weekend saw the latest edition of the New York Times’s Key magazine. Usually a source of real estate porn, the magazine usually looks at the froth in the housing market and winks. With the exception of a piece about a company that tends to magnates’ private wineries, the latest issue was decidedly sober. More details in today’s featured commentary by Next American City editor Diana Lind.
  

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  Moving toward affordable housing

  Larry Martin | Wed, Dec 19th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: washington dc, larry martin, real estate, condominiums, affordable housing, potomac river flood, penn quarter, west end | 0

  For about a decade now, an indicator of economic activity in DC has been the number of erection cranes you can count as you as you drive down into the Potomac River flood plain from upper Northwest. You can pretty much see all of the downtown and a good bit of the Southwest and Southeast too from the piedmont above downtown. I counted the largest number a couple years ago—28.

  The City was building aggressively, with Gallery Place (about 5 blocks north of the National Mall) completing…

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