Community and Neighborhoods – Page 3

Think Before You Demolish: Balancing Preservation with the Bulldozer

January 7, 2014

They don’t build them like they used to. It’s a sentiment expressed broadly across all kinds of segments of our society, but perhaps it is no more physically noticeable than when it comes to housing. And let’...

The Jersey City powerhouse. Photo by Kate Rounds of hudsonreporter.com

The Powerhouse Rules

Melissa Cameron

December 5, 2013

Community and Neighborhoods, The Burbs

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The Jersey City Powerhouse patiently sits on Washington Street, just outside a sea of newly built Trump funded high-rise buildings. The partially crumbling brick structure, graffiti laden walls, and broken cath...

Places in the Making: New MIT Research on Placemaking Reveals the Power of Community Engagement in Design of Public Spaces

John Cruz

October 23, 2013

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, News

Today a new white paper was released by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the subject of Placemaking. The team is headed by faculty Susan Silberberg, w...

A tea party on parking day 2013 in Hartford Conn. Photo by grhartfordarts on Flickr.

Guerrilla Urbanism: Parking Day

John Cruz

September 26, 2013

Community and Neighborhoods

Urbanism comes in many forms; but it's not always a philanthropic foundation, business, non-profit, or government entity that makes things happen. Guerrilla Urbanism is the practice of re-claiming an already in...

New Daleville, PA. Photo Source: http://sadsburyparkpa.com/photos.html

Lost Harvest

David Mieksztyn

May 21, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Featured

For those who have read Witold Rybczynski's Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville, the following story reveals what adding the housing market crash to cornfield-new urbanism looks like. Last Harve...

Manhattan. Photo courtesy of andrew c mace on Flickr.

Cities and Free Markets: The Manufactured American Dream

John Cruz

April 18, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs

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For some reason or another people seem to associate cities with socialism and suburbs with the capitalist American dream. The notion that the strong middle class created American suburbia has been engraved in o...

Karachi’s Unplanned Poor

David Mieksztyn

March 15, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Economic Development, Featured

Imagine everything is new, bright and shiny. Imagine this new is something that also keeps you out, pushes you away, and finds you abandoning the place you once called home. When the poor in society are pushe...

REO Rental Properties and What to Expect

David Mieksztyn

February 23, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods

When the Obama administration announced the REO to rental program in the beginning of February there was finally a sense of large scale action on the abysmal housing situation in America. Real-estate-owned (RE...

5 Takeaways from “Defend Your Ride”

John Cruz

February 10, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs

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Towards the end of last year I had the opportunity to produce a blog feature for CBS Detroit called Defend Your Ride (which is why there was a bit of a lull in posting for a while). The segment is being done in...

Home in Warren for Rent. Photo courtesy of Zillow.com

(Slum)Lord of the Inner-Ring

David Mieksztyn

January 30, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Featured, The Burbs

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Across the street is a partially run down home, with the front screen door off its hinges, peeling paint all around the house, and a partially collapsed garage door. This is the site you see outside your front...