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Plan or be Planned? – An Urban Densification Dilemma

January 4, 2012 by This Big City
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By Alistair Mackay at Future Cape Town When you fly into Buenos Aires, the city stretches for as far as the eye can see – it’s an unimaginably big sprawl of high-rise apartment blocks, urban squares and neat, rigid avenues that eventually deteriorate into slums and suburbia. It is completely flat, and so European in the... [read more]

Can Gentrification Work in Cities?

January 2, 2012 by Rashiq Fataar
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by Rashiq Fataar Gentrification has many forms and definitions. A recent Case Study on gentrification in Woodstock defines it is as, “a transformation of a dilapidated neighbourhood into an upgraded, attractive area with an influx of a higher social class that is pushing out the original, poorer residents”. For Cape Town, the... [read more]

Apple Stores for Healthy Urban Economies?

December 15, 2011 by Ben Schulman
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By Robert Gibbs.The opening of Apple’s newest store in New York’s Grand Central Terminal prompted Brian Caulfield of Forbes Magazine to write an article about the often underestimated economic kick an Apple Store can bring to surrounding shops.  Retail development guru and author of Principles of Urban Retail Planning and... [read more]

Pushing Gently:  A Look at San Francisco’s Tenderloin National Forest

August 15, 2011 by Next American City
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Credit: Johanna HoffmanIt’s late afternoon in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood –- one of America’s densest urban areas—and a homeless man is sitting in the shade of a redwood tree. Out on the sidewalk, just one hundred feet away, people yell, smoke and shoot up in broad daylight, but in this narrow alley where the redwood grows,... [read more]

A Planner's reality: Segregation in America

March 30, 2011 by Don Zeigler
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Salon.com recently posted a great slideshow of the most segregated cities in America. The post had a map of the racial breakdown of each city as well as an explanation of the history of segregation in each city. Check out the slideshow in this link.What's interesting is that even in some of the most segregated cities, there is a new... [read more]

Transit-Friendly Neighbors, Removed from Transit-Friendly Neighborhoods?

October 22, 2010 by Next American City
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New rail stations may be gentrifying neighborhoods to an extent that the people most likely to take advantage of transit services are being pushed out, forced to relocate because of higher prices. This is a claim that strikes deep at the heart of one of the most frequently used arguments in favor of new investments in transit systems,... [read more]

Union Square:A Once and Future Gentleman's Community

March 31, 2010 by Spence Lean
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What do you think of when you think about Union Square? Frankly, I don't know what you the reader thinks because I'm not psychic but I'll tell you what I think. I think of a "Gentleman's Community" with large row homes whose piece de resistance was and is the public square in the middle of the neighborhood. This was one of the first... [read more]

Library Sqaure: Meet Ellwood Park

March 4, 2010 by Spence Lean
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In my own going effort to revitalize all of East Baltimore, I came across a draft for a Master Plan for Library Square. It touches on some great ways to keep up gentrification moving above Patterson Park. Two things it doesn't do is address the one way stub of Pulaski Highway between Orleans St. and Fayette and the other is Ellwood Park... [read more]

How far is the reach of Hopkins Biotech Park?

February 28, 2010 by Spence Lean
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Some Pictures from Google Earth (I'll take my own when the snow melts) All the talk in East Baltimore is new Biotech Park and its development arm East Baltimore Development Initiative (EBDI) which has been charged with building Baltimore's "New East Side" now that covers a lot of ground, a lot of ground and a lot of blocks. Of course,... [read more]

Pigtown:All Things Baltimore

July 25, 2009 by Spence Lean
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Baltimore call itself a City of Neighborhoods. Each and every one of these neighborhoods contributes to Baltimore as a whole. Some things about Baltimore are good while others aren't so good. One thing about Baltimore is that despite the bad press, it's trying harder than ever to become a world class self sustained American City.Now... [read more]