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Metro Reports: Minnesota Places, 1125 N Schmeer Rd, Ankeny South, and more

Next Portland

Every week, the Bureau of Development Services publishes lists of Early Assistance applications, Land Use Reviews and Building Permits processed in the previous week. 1 loading zone. Also proposed is the connection of parking lots (between subject site and the neighboring hotel, immediately west of the site).

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A bill that could make zoning more inclusive

Community Architect Daily

In recent years planners have become much more aware of the exclusionary effects that zoning has had on people and their towns and cities. The old zoning separated neatly housing from everything else presumably in the interest of public health. Dismantling the legacy zoning system is no small task.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

Public housing “often gave anonymity and feelings of isolation to people living in those high-rises,” says Liebman, who was the chief of architecture for the New York State Urban Development Corporation (now Empire State Development) from 1969–1975. Perkins Eastman designed the community center in the foreground.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

Only Domino Sugar's processing factory and dock remained active within site of the Inner Harbor. No tall building would be permitted on the waterfront except for the eventually constructed Ian Pei designed World Trade Center The waterfront would be protected as parks, public areas with a wide promenade. Some had seen decline coming.

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University of Arkansas Community Design Center Proposes Downtown Housing Regeneration Scheme

Architizer

Markham Square Housing District – This is a downtown regeneration scheme in which a residential square replaces a brownfield industrial site only two blocks from Main Street. Developer input was certainly helpful in understanding market tolerance and financing metrics, which shape much of what gets built in everyday environments.

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6 Pioneering Urban Planning Projects Transforming Public Space

Architizer

West End Square By James Corner Field Operations , Dallas, Texas Popular Choice Winner, 10 th Annual A+Awards, Public Parks & Green Spaces Nestled amongst the hubbub of Downtown Dallas, this exceptional green space was built on the site of an old parking lot. Environmental challenges are deftly negotiated too.

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