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Types of Development for the Creative Class

Cool Town Studios offers this list of 19 development types for the creative class.
9 November 2009 - 5:00am
Cool Town Studios

Inside David Byrne's Livable City

Using a mishmash of highlights from cities around the world, musician and artist David Byrne talks about his personal vision of a perfect, livable city.
14 September 2009 - 10:00am
The Wall Street Journal
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Denver to Replace Public Housing Project with Mixed Use TOD

The Denver Housing Authority is planning on demolishing one of the city's oldest low-income public housing projects to make way for a new mixed-use, transit-oriented housing development.
13 August 2009 - 6:00am
The Denver Post

Huge Redevelopment Project Coming to Sacramento

12,000 new homes could be coming to Sacramento over the next two decades -- part of a $5.3 billion redevelopment focused on the city's historic railyards.
13 August 2009 - 5:00am
The New York Times

The Mixed-Use Library

Libraries are struggling to make ends meet in Milwaukee. One possible solution: integrating a mix of uses.
7 August 2009 - 7:00am
Library Journal

Mixed-Use for Mormons

A private development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, City Creek Center will be the largest mixed-use project in Salt Lake City.
15 May 2009 - 12:00pm
The New York Times

Brutalist High-Rises Finding New Life in Toronto

Toronto is moving forward with a plan to re-vision it's aging concrete high-rises as sustainable, mixed-use centers of urban development.
27 April 2009 - 8:00am
WorldChanging
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Horse Track Sees Possible Future as Mixed Use

Developers have released plans for a mixed use retail project to replace a horse racing track, a proposal that would be one of the largest redevelopment projects in the region.
14 March 2009 - 5:00am
Los Angeles Times

Malls Reborn as 'Lifestyle Centers'

American shopping malls may be dying or already dead, but they are being reincarnated as mixed-use "lifestyle centers".
8 March 2009 - 1:00pm
Sustainable Industries
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A Quarry Converting to Mixed Use

A quarry in San Diego is on a path towards conversion into a $1.5 billion mixed-use housing and retail project, one many thought unlikely in today's tight market.
6 March 2009 - 11:00am
The New York Times

Better Transportation Needs Better Cities

A new design competition is seeking solutions to L.A.'s transportation problems. But the real solution may not have anything to do with transportation at all.
2 March 2009 - 5:00am
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Big Box Retail Owners Ask For Stacked Housing

The two owners of a traditional 8-acre strip, big box retail center in San Francisco have asked for an amendment to the neighborhood plan (undergoing revision) to allow them to add housing on top of their stores, thus doubling the height limit.
14 November 2008 - 12:00pm
San Francisco Examiner
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Impound Lot Could Find New Life in Mixed Use

The City of Minneapolis is considering a plan to convert a 55-acre site containing an impound lot into a mixed-use office and residential project.
7 November 2008 - 6:00am
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune
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Baltimore Makes Grander Vision for Arts District

Planners in Baltimore have unveiled a 30-year plan to remake its arts district into a mixed-use, transit-oriented, regional destination.
1 November 2008 - 5:00am
The Baltimore Sun

$300 Million Mixed-Use Coming to Providence

A $300 million mixed-use development is bringing new life to a long-neglected industrial district of Providence, RI.
1 August 2008 - 7:00am
The New York Times

A New Downtown for Scottsdale

Scottsdale, Arizona planners have released a new vision for their downtown, in a 'trend toward urban living'.
23 July 2008 - 9:00am
The Arizona Republic

Ambitious City Center Plan Moves Forward

Despite the economic downturn, city officials in Spokane Valley, WA move forward with a plan to build something the city has always lacked: a true city center.
13 June 2008 - 12:00pm
Spokane Journal of Business

What IS Mixed-Use, Anyway?

"Mixed-use"? "transit-oriented development"? Development in Farmington, Utah hits a wall while the planning commission debates definitions.
2 June 2008 - 8:00am
The Salt Lake Tribune
Michael Lewyn

Two kinds of sprawl

Mon, 05/05/2008 - 07:33
Once every few semesters, I teach a seminar on "Sprawl and the Law." On the first day of the seminar, I ask students what "sprawl" is. After getting a variety of answers, I reveal the truth: most definitions of sprawl involve one of two separate definitions:

"Where we grow"- Sprawl as movement from the core to the fringe of a region.

"How we grow"- Sprawl as development oriented towards drivers as opposed to nondrivers.

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Infill Projects Set To Connect Cities, Transform Region

Urban infill developments are slated to transform the vast industrial land between Charleston and North Charleston, South Carolina, known as "the Neck" area, into live-work communities that stitch the two cities together.
22 April 2008 - 5:00am
Charleston Business Journal
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