Topic: Zoning
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Should We Be Zoning With Crime in Mind?
If residential areas are safer than commercial ones, it would seem so.
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Mixed-Use Neighborhoods May Be Safer, Too
New research from Los Angeles finds that crime rates are lower in communities with both commercial and residential uses.
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Raw Anger Permeates a New Film About Gentrification in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
There is nothing subtle about Gut Renovation, Su Friedrich’s latest documentary. She's pissed and she wants you to know it.
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The Monotony of Gentrification: Best #Cityreads of the Week
Our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about cities and urbanism we've come across in the past seven days.
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Maps
SimCity Reference of the Day: Chicago Zoning Map
Complete with in-game music.
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This Micro-Apartment Exhibit Is So Enticing, You'll Want to Move In
New York's latest foray into smaller living hits all the right notes.
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Farewell Formstone? Requiem for a Baltimore Building Material
A proposed zoning revision threatens to outlaw Formstone, ubiquitous on Baltimore's row house façades. Will anyone care?
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Charts
The Evolution of Urban Planning in 10 Diagrams
A new exhibit from the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association showcases the simple visualizations of complex ideas that have changed how we live.
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Singapore: The Reluctant World Capital of Tiny Homes
The city-state is on its way to being overrun with pint-sized condos. The government wants it to stop.
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3 Sizes Fit All: Norfolk's Downtown, Urban, and Suburban Designations
Easing revitalization by placing the city's neighborhoods into one of three groups.
