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Posted by: Deborah Myerson
Thanks to: Deborah Myerson
17 April 2005 - 7:00am

Philadelphia is experimenting with the latest trend in public housing: creating low-density, mixed income communities in historic-looking rowhouses.

Subsidized housing in Philadelphia is starting to look more like the rest of the neighborhood. The reviled high-rise towers have come down---and in their place have come brick-front Victorian-esque rowhouses. The mix of rentals and owner-occupied homes front streets newly integrated with the existing grid.

Full Story: Low-rise, High hopes
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 15, 2005
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.
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