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Sculptures Rise in Iowa, Distract From City's Woes

A Des Moines venture capitalist and his wife have donated a reported $40 million worth of large public sculptures for a sculpture park, part of a significant redevelopment effort by the city.
1 November 2009 - 9:00am
The New York Times

Redeveloping Brooklyn's Waterfront Wasteland?

Developers and NYC's Mayor Bloomberg have hit a speed bump in revitalizing the Gowanus Canal. It may be designated as a Superfund site.
23 October 2009 - 8:00am
The New York Times

Dead Malls: Suburban Planning Nightmare or Opportunity?

Failing malls didn’t get into trouble overnight: most began their descent long before the tough climate.
30 September 2009 - 9:00am
Building Place Notebook
Anthony Townsend

Rethinking Lower Manhattan: What If?

Wed, 09/30/2009 - 05:58

Since its founding in the mid 1990s, Alliance for Downtown New York has long been one of the world's leading business improvement districts. This non-profit organization has presided over the reinvention of New York's historic Financial District as a thriving 24-hour live/work district, while retaining a respectable share of the city's financial services sector. The Alliance built a network of Wi-Fi hotspots that lit up nearly every major public space in the district - not just outdoor locations like Bowling Green and City Hall Park, but also indoor atria like the Winter Garden and 60 Wall Street.

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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

Redevelopment Funds Take a Hard Hit in California

More than $2 billion has been cut from redevelopment programs in California's budget, which many say will exacerbate the building slowdown in the state.
11 August 2009 - 7:00am
The Architect's Newspaper

Funds to Stabilize Neighborhoods, But Which Ones?

Funding from the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program is finding a lot of use in foreclosure-swamped California's San Bernardino County. But one city is deep in debate over how those funds should be used, and which areas should be saved.
3 August 2009 - 5:00am
The Contra Costa Times

Hopes Cautiously Pinned on Redevelopment

Federal stimulus money is bringing a new health center to a Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Locals are hopeful that the new development will add some prosperity to their poor area, but nobody's especially confident that it will.
14 July 2009 - 10:00am
The New York Times

Massive Redevelopment In The Works In St. Louis

Developer Paul McKee has secretly assembled 500 acres of land in north St. Louis, and recently unveiled a plan that includes 4 and a half million sq. ft. of new office and retail and 10,000 new homes.
30 May 2009 - 7:00am
St. Louis Post Dispatch
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Pittsburgh Mayor Announces Riverfront Revamping

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced that the city will work to redevelop a 6.2 stretch of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, selling large tracts of city-owned land to developers.
1 May 2009 - 11:00am
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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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The Contested Future of Coney Island

Redeveloping Coney Island could be the biggest rezoning effort in New York City history. The controversial plan has many in the city up in arms.
27 April 2009 - 6:00am
New York Daily News

Bronx Boomer

Big-name and big-budget projects in New York are basking in the spotlight, but smaller, community-based projects are also flourishing in the Bronx.
2 April 2009 - 2:00pm
The Architect's Newspaper

Much Investment But Little Progress in Vancouver Slum

More than $1 billion has been invested in a Vancouver slum area, but little improvement can be seen, according to this investigation from The Globe and Mail.
17 February 2009 - 10:00am
The Globe and Mail

Protesters Killed in Battle Over Redevelopment in Korea

Violent activists threw gasoline bombs from the top of a building in Seoul, protesting forced evictions to make way for new development. Police stormed the building, and the resulting fire killed six.
16 February 2009 - 7:00am
The Los Angeles Times

The Planetizen News Brief - 2/13/09


4:35 minutes (4.2 MB)

Another mall bites the dust, advertisers struggle to afford Paris' bike sharing system, and Las Vegas gambles on downtown -- all on this week's Planetizen News Brief, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". Read, listen or download.

13 February 2009 - 5:00am
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Making Redevelopment Progressive

Mayor R.T. Rybak of Minneapolis is changing the rules of urban economic redevelopment, mainly by not handing out large tax incentives to big businesses.
10 February 2009 - 8:00am
Governing Magazine

Las Vegas Mayor Gambles on Downtown Revival Plan

Amid tough economic times, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman is pushing a broad redevelopment plan in the city's outdated downtown.
10 February 2009 - 6:00am
The New York Times

Towards Land Recyclability

Urban development needs to be re-considered as urban redevelopment, according to this column from MinnPost.
29 January 2009 - 2:00pm
MinnPost

Creating Sustainability in Oregon

The master plan for Salem, Oregon's Pringle Creek Community is ambitious, says Jim Fitzsimons, incorporating mixed-use, sustainable development with the community-enhancing aspects of old city neighborhoods.
17 January 2009 - 5:00am
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
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