Topic: Urban Renewal
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Photos
How the Highway Killed Washington's Waterfront
And how the city plans to bring it back to life.
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Photos
Map of the Day: Montreal, Then and Now
Sixty-six years later, the city's urban design is not so different.
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Urban Wonk
This Is What a Neighborhood Revitalization Actually Looks Like
A low-income community in Boston taps homegrown business leaders for a brighter future.
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Urban Wonk
Facts and Fictions of D.C.'s Gentrification
Urban comebacks like the District of Columbia's can come at a price. This past week showed how sore a subject this still is.
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Photos
The Insurance Company That Thought Its Buildings Could Save Cities
Why Prudential thought it could save America's downtowns through its own decentralization.
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Videos
'No Time for Ugliness': A 1965 Case for Better Cities
Even 47 years ago, American architects saw the perils of sprawl and car-oriented development.
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Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours
By seizing a historical moment, ordinary Danish and Dutch citizens were able to change the course of development in their urban centers.
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Photos
The U.K.'s Most Depressing Shopping Centers, When They Were New
An unpolished look back at post-war urban renewal in Great Britain.
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Photos
Landscape Absurdism: An Urban Prairie in St. Louis
What happens to a neighborhood when demolition becomes the official urban policy
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Archives
A Visual History of Civic Seattle
Telling the story of a city through its digitized ephemera
