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What Robert Moses Got Right (And Kansas City Got Wrong)
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 06/09/2015 - 11:52amRobert Moses is most famous (or perhaps infamous) for paving over large chunks of New York City with highways. But he also built and rehabilitated thousands of acres of parks and playgrounds; and in this area his contribution to the city was more unambiguously positive.
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How Walkable / Pedestrian Friendly Is Downtown Panama City, Panama?
Submitted by Dylan on Wed, 12/26/2012 - 12:59pmThe answer to the question in the title of the Blog- well...... the picture to the right might be a little bit deceiving.
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Ocean Springs Honored for Park and Beach Plans
Submitted by MattBerggren on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 7:07amOn Wednesday, June 30th, the city of Ocean Springs was honored in Biloxi during the Mississippi Municipal League (MML) annual conference. The city's "Front Beach Master Plan and Fort Maurepas Park" was one of the 2010 Municipal Excellence Award winners.... read more »
Putting a lid on the Downtown Connector at the Urban Labs luncheon
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 5:41amTalk about power lunching. At yesterday's Urban Labs lunch, at St. Luke's Church, a few minutes' walk from the Hilton, those of us at Table 1-A finished off our box lunches and then within about an hour sketched out a possible solution to a vexing problem of downtown Atlanta - the Downtown Connector... read more »
Conventional Beautification in Unconventional Locale
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 1:47pmThe problems associated with deindustrialization - crime, gangs, unemployment -have occured not just in central cities but also inner-ring suburbs where the post-war boom first expanded to in Southern California. Paramount, California, a stigmatized inner-ring suburb southeast of Los Angeles, is cur... read more »