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I would love to see this documentary: Pruitt-Igoe.com Other historical footage:

Via a Fresno Downtown Association , here is a video that was produced by shopping mall architect Victor Gruen. He starts by reviewing the d...

Related to the post last week: documenting the dirty dangerous cities and advocating clean suburbs:

When I was looking through the Sanford Insurance maps of the Washington Park area, I was struck by the fact that there is a tendency to remo...

  I recently reconnected (via Facebook) with an old friend who I met in OTR 15 years ago. Perhaps, growing from what she learned in OTR, Gi...

The ultimate cause of our current depression is that we overspent. The savings rate in this country is the lowest in 75 years and it is the...

Some things never change, but often the specifics do drastically change. For example, people still get forced from their homes. Years ago of...

[Where: 1810 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202] Last summer, this building was fully occupied. It was built in the 1880s, occupied as rental...

Obama has announced he will establish an Office of Urban Policy . HUD (The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development) never quite filled the bi...

A liberal retort to the Atlantic article a few weeks ago that claimed a link between Section 8 vouchers and spreading crime. I linked to t...

Interesting article in the Eugene Weekly advocating using parks to help drive development: Given that Eugene has been trying without success...

This plan, published by the City in 1981 was found on a shelf in my office. I think it was my partner's. He worked on several projects...

If ends justified means, and if the important thing in building a project was to get it started, then any means that got it started were jus...

This building was not saved by the Local Historic District, because at the time, Over-the-Rhine had only National Designation as a historic ...

  This is what you get after one winter when a Florida starchitect is hired to design a building in a midwestern climate.

We can see around us, from the days preceding project building, many examples of decaying city neighborhoods built up all at once... Every c...

I don't like it when a childhood haunt is demolished, and I can understand a person expressing sadness at the loss of a neighborhood. B...