Archive for July, 2010
July 16, 2010 · Filed under Active Transportation, Density, Diversity, Pedestrians, Real Estate
Jennifer and Andrew Greenberg didn’t fall in love at first sight with the 1950s ranch house they just bought in Portland, Ore. But they did feel that way about the neighborhood. They saw people out walking and noticed how close the house was to coffee shops and wooded paths. So they chose the home that needed more work over a comparably priced but more upscale option in another area. “When it came down to it, we weren’t willing to compromise on walkability,” says Ms. Greenberg, a 37-year-old event planner.
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July 16, 2010 · Filed under Gentrification, Urban Actions
In the past 10 years, the mechanics of gentrification have become so predictable and codified that the once-messy process of urban renewal is now as tidy and rule-based as a game of Risk or Mouse Trap. Which helps explain why the Toronto-based artist collective Atmosphere Industries debuted Gentrification: The Game! at the Come Out & Play Festival in Brooklyn, N.Y., last month.
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July 9, 2010 · Filed under Authenticity, Creative Cities, Diversity, Economics, Industrial, Revitalization, Waterfronts
Maybe Richard Florida has promoted the wrong creative class. In his model, artists beget coffee bars that make formerly dreary neighborhoods attractive to real estate developers, who lure lawyers and accountants into luxury loft buildings with names like “the Shoe Factory.” Maybe there’s another model, one that sucks a little of the class bias out of the formula and privileges artisans over artists, blue-collar jobs over white-collar ones. Give enough people who are passionate about making things the stability to invest in equipment and hire workers, and you might slow, or even reverse, the death spiral.
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July 7, 2010 · Filed under Real Estate
House buyers are being urged to head for the hills – if they have enough money.
While most people looking for a home are swayed by the number of bedrooms or whether the children will get into the local school, a study reveals they should be looking at the first line of the address.
Researchers have worked out the average price of Britain’s 858,000 residential streets, and sorted them according to their names.
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