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Aaron J. Barker | Feb 9th, 2011 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York, Seattle |
During boom times, rezoning alone was perhaps enough to trigger new construction. But for municipalities serious about infill—particularly in subprime but transit-rich areas needing redevelopment—it’s turned out to be less effective.
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Karl Magi | Jan 7th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Today, a conversation with an architect with a vision of revitalizing inner cities and building “slow homes” rather than cookie-cutter suburban boxes: John Brown of housebrand. (
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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | Dec 7th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: Central, East Coast, South | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
A campaign to reorient transportation spending towards roads could reduce the ability of urban neighborhoods to develop cheap alternative solutions. (
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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | May 17th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: Midwest | Cities: Cincinnati, Detroit |
Even if land speculators could assemble the financing for new transit lines, decision-making about alignments should probably remain the role of the public sector. (
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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Feb 4th, 2009 | Topic: Urban Nation | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Despite the credit crunch, economic downturn and weak real estate market, developers can’t get enough of D.C. (
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Simmons Buntin | Sep 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Denver |
Simmons Buntin concludes his tour of New Urbanist Denver with urban planner Carolyn Dooling by visiting Lowry in Denver, Belmar in Lakewood, and Iris Hollow and the Holiday Neighborhood in Boulder. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Aug 12th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Connecting D.C. area suburbs with a new Metro line will be complicated. Lawsuits and local politics have delayed the proposed Purple Line connection between Bethesda, Silver springs and New Carrollton. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Jul 9th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Atlanta |
Maria Saporta’s editorial on economic global competitiveness and megaregions hones in on the most important issue for the future of southeastern U.S. cities - mobility. However, the rest of the world isn’t waiting for experts from the Piedmont-Atlantic megaregion to unite and find direction. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Jun 11th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Jeffrey Hill | Jun 11th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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During boom times, rezoning alone was perhaps enough to trigger new construction. But for municipalities serious about infill—particularly in subprime but transit-rich areas needing redevelopment—it’s turned out to be less effective. (keep reading…)
Today, a conversation with an architect with a vision of revitalizing inner cities and building “slow homes” rather than cookie-cutter suburban boxes: John Brown of housebrand. (keep reading…)
A campaign to reorient transportation spending towards roads could reduce the ability of urban neighborhoods to develop cheap alternative solutions. (keep reading…)
Even if land speculators could assemble the financing for new transit lines, decision-making about alignments should probably remain the role of the public sector. (keep reading…)
Simmons Buntin concludes his tour of New Urbanist Denver with urban planner Carolyn Dooling by visiting Lowry in Denver, Belmar in Lakewood, and Iris Hollow and the Holiday Neighborhood in Boulder. (keep reading…)
Connecting D.C. area suburbs with a new Metro line will be complicated. Lawsuits and local politics have delayed the proposed Purple Line connection between Bethesda, Silver springs and New Carrollton. (keep reading…)
Maria Saporta’s editorial on economic global competitiveness and megaregions hones in on the most important issue for the future of southeastern U.S. cities - mobility. However, the rest of the world isn’t waiting for experts from the Piedmont-Atlantic megaregion to unite and find direction. (keep reading…)
