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Tag Archives: urban renewal
Geography of America’s Historic Black Main Streets
Discriminatory Jim Crow Era segregation laws that were often brutally enforced throughout the South and the bigoted use of similar divisive tactics elsewhere in the United States led to the creation and development of African-American business districts and corridors … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, archaeology, architecture, business, cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, commerce, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, gentrification, geography, historic preservation, history, Housing, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, injustice, land use, pictures, placemaking, planning, politics, poverty, racism, revitalization, shopping, Small business, social equity, tourism, Trade, urban planning
Tagged bigotry, desegregation, Historic Black business districts, Historic Black Main Streets, Jim Crow Era, main street, racism, segregation, urban renewal
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The worst failures of American urban planning
This post looks at macro-scale urban planning failures to identify what this retired planner believes are/were the worst blunders that have taken place in American urban planning, as a profession. Keep in mind that urban planning includes a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, architecture, Bus transportation, cities, civics, Civil Rights, commerce, culture, demographics, density, diversity, downtown, economic development, environment, geography, government, health, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, injustice, land use, placemaking, planning, racism, rail, rivers/watersheds, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, Taxes, traffic, transit, transportation, urban design, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged building codes, Euclidean zoning, form-based code, freeway, low-density zoning, minorities, sameness, sprawl, transit, urban planning, urban renewal
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Geography of the Jazz Age in North America
The Jazz Age represented the musical form’s peak period of popularity between 1920 and 1960. While New Orleans, Kansas City, Chicago, and New York were and remain the preeminent epicenters of jazz, in many other cities across the country, vibrant … Continue reading
Posted in art, cities, Communications, culture, diversity, economic development, entertainment, gentrification, geography, government, historic preservation, history, inclusiveness, land use, Maps, music, music reviews, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, racism, Radio, social equity, songs, theaters, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged highways, jazz, Jazz Age, Kansas City, music, New Orleans, racism, urban renewal
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Putting Humpty Dumpty Cities back together again
Some may wonder what in the world this nursery rhyme has to do with cities. Well, it’s essentially a metaphor for those cities that were devastated by freeway construction in the 1950s through 1980s. Much in the way Humpty … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, Alternative transportation, Canada, Cars, cities, commerce, downtown, economic gardening, geography, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, Maps, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, revitalization, spatial design, sustainability, transportation, urban planning
Tagged Canada, cities, freeways, highways, Humpty Dumpty, land use, planning, revitalization, spatial design, transportation, urban planning, urban renewal, USA
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