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  • [Re]moving urban highways

    As city leaders reconsider their urban spaces—and particularly, urban waterfronts—through the lens of a post-industrial economy and renewed urbanism, moving urban highways has become more of a priority. Urban planners have shut many of them down and built in their stead parks.

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  • What Do the Poor Need? Try Asking Them

    Neighborhood Centers, a Houston anti-poverty program has a simple philosophy: “The people are the asset, the source of potential solutions, not the problem.” The non-profit has scaled nationally, employing its bottom-up approach to disburse funds in poor communities.

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  • A Superficial Solution for Crime That Actually Works

    In 2011, Philadelphia began requiring owners of vacant properties to install working doors and windows on all streets that are at least 80% occupied. A study of the impact of the Doors and Windows Ordinance has found a decrease in crime in neighborhoods where the "appearance of disorder" was changed, providing an example for other cities looking for low-cost ways to decrease crime rates.

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  • How Central Oregon Bet Its Future on Community College

    Despite the economic hardships brought on by the downfall of the lumber industry in the '80s and the housing market crash of 2008, Bend, Oregon has managed to successfully enter the ranks of a technology hub, without the presence of a university. The small but thriving city bet on its local community college, which offers a unique campus feel and rigorous course load that sets it apart from other community colleges of the same size. When the lumber industry left, the region bet its future on technology—even though it lacked a research university.

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  • Urban Farming

    A growing number of people in the famously crowded Tokyo metropolis are becoming ‘city farmers’, planting crops atop tall buildings or deep underground. In an age of detrimental climate change, urban cultivation and green roof agriculture will soon be necessary as food, water and energy resources become scarcer.

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  • Stories of Redemption in America's Coal Country

    After the downturn of the coal industry, 8,000 jobs were lost in Central Appalachia. While some counties are renewed with the help of federal assistance, others find ways to help themselves.

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  • Why A Philadelphia Grocery Chain Is Thriving In Food Deserts

    Brown's Super Stores operates seven profitable supermarkets in traditionally food desert neighborhoods in Philadelphia. The founder says it's because they brought together a group of community leaders and asked them exactly what they were looking for in a neighborhood grocery store, and used the information to truly create a space for the broader community that often includes health care clinics, banking services, event space, and more.

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  • Dutch Aquatecture: Engineering a Future on the Water

    As climate change causes global sea levels to rise, nations around the world are increasingly concerned about threats to infrastructure and livelihoods. But the Dutch have been keeping the sea at bay for centuries using a variety of methods and technologies. Their designs and plans - such as floating buildings - may provide solutions for other countries looking to evolve and adapt to changing ocean levels.

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  • How One Weekend in Dallas Sparked a Movement for Urban Change

    A Dallas urban neighborhood was dilapidated with abandoned storefronts and offered no vitality for pedestrians. A group of artists and community members created Build a Better Block, in which local artisans and small businesses took over a vacant block and transformed it for a limited time to encourage the ingredients for more permanent urban renewal.

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  • Anchored in hope: How Toronto is learning from Cleveland's return to prosperity

    After decades of economic and social despair that once saw it named the poorest big city in America, Cleveland has become a model of revitalization, thanks to a unique “anchor strategy” that harnesses the immense wealth and power of the city’s public institutions.

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