Legacy Cities—the launch of a new school of planning?

Last month (Jan 2012) the Brookings Institution, together with its partners, the Center for Community Progress and Columbia Universities’ American Assembly, unveiled a new book of policy and strategy essays on the plight of older industrial cities that have suffered decades of population loss and decline—what some scholars call shrinking cities. Edited by a friend
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Vacant Properties: Design solutions & the housing crisis

Gang and Lindsay’s recent opinion piece in the New York Times, offers a glimpse into what might become more common place in suburbia’s ever growing more diverse and immigrant filled communities. Often single family houses present a mismatch between cost and needed size over lifetime of family as it changes. They suggest instead of insisting this mismatch a
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