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Taking revitalization to the next level: Denver’s Living City Block
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 3:15pm.The Living City Block is an ambitious project in Denver’s LoDo (Lower Downtown) to demonstrate the potential of combining environmentally conscious business and economic development with revitalizat
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Time for a Sustainable Revitalization Agenda for America's Smaller Cities
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 2:07am.Andre Leroux, executive director of the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, believes that New England's smaller cities hold the potential to absorb much development that could help save the region's
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"Shrinking Cities": Let's Be Careful What We Wish For
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 4:51pm.Readers of a certain age will remember Joni's Mitchell's iconic anthem "Woodstock," celebrating the famous 1969 music festival (which, incidentally, she did not attend, but I digress).
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Revitalizing Cincinnati's Historic Over-the-Rhine (Part 3 - Exciting Progress Portends a National Model)
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 06/15/2009 - 6:43pm.This was going to be the final installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati's remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, but I'm on too much of a roll to finish today.
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Revitalizing Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine (Part 2 - the Neighborhood's Assets)
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 9:46pm.Last week I wrote the first installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati’s remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.
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Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine, On the Verge
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 6:40pm.Cincinnati’s historic and very centrally located Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is poised to become one of America’s greatest revitalization stories, in the process creating a national exemplar of gr
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Walmart, McCain forge new alliance to fight sprawl
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 1:07pm.BENTONVILLE, April 1 – In an unusual joint appearance this morning, Walmart CEO Mike F. Duke and former candidate John R.
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Campbell's Soup : 5-1 HSC Council also noted applicants' failure to explore possible uses other than Class A office
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sat, 06/23/2007 - 9:30am.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TRENTON - June 22, 2007
Preservation New Jersey (PNJ), the statewide, grassroots historic
preservation advocacy and education organization, today congratulated the
New Jersey Historic Sites Council (HSC) for its vote yesterday to protect
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Paving history for parking. For nearly two centuries, the buildings stood until they were mistakenly torn down .
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Fri, 06/08/2007 - 6:35pm.Phila. Inquirer By Inga Saffron
Inquirer Architecture Critic
Paving history for parking
For nearly two centuries, the buildings stood as sentinels at Front and Chestnuts streets until they were mistakenly torn down by bulldozers to make way for a parking lot. The matter is under investigation.
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From his grave, ten minutes by subway from CNU XV, Walt Whitman challenges New Urbanists
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 2:26am.From his Grave in Camden, New Jersey, Walt Whitman's Challenge to XV New Urbanists.
Talk a 1/2 mile picture walk from the Hi Speed Rail Rand Transportation Center, to the waterfront. In this aprox. 15 minute walk, passing Walt Whitman's House, a National Landmark, you will see New Urbanism's greates... read more »