Finding Your Economy’s Hidden Treasure
…furnaces, and forges — when they moved out of New England in the early part of the 20th century. The Blackstone River, once known as “the hardest working river inAmerica” because of its role in…
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What’s the Market Telling Us?
…shift in economic development and retail — a shift fostered by changing demographics. The “20th century model of economic development,” McMahon explained, “focused on the ‘one big thing’ … that is, mega projects like convention…
A Call to Action … and to Walking
…built environment is health policy and social policy in concrete.” There’s strong precedent for linking planning and public health, Jackson reminded the audience. At the start of the 20th century, the leading causes of death…
Affordable Modern Pre-Fab Housing
…Housing” (and accompanying sidebar by Beth Orenstein with more on the Lustron) — this was one section of our special article, The Promise of America: Ten Failures that Shaped the 20th Century American City. See…
Anchoring a Neighborhood
…She met with planners touring Billings Forge as part of the Southern New England APA conference. Wheaton outlined the history of Billings Forge: In the 19th and early 20th century it had been a tool…
Reinventing Your Community From the Inside Out – Part I
…Buffalo, Binghamton, Youngstown, Detroit, and Cleveland flourished in the post WW II years. Then in the last quarter of the 20th century, a downward spiral began: loss of manufacturing sector resulted in loss of population,…
Libraries at the Heart of Our Communities
…20th, when cities such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago built ambitious public libraries.” It’s important to recognize, however, that it’s not just big cities that benefit from libraries. In fact smaller cities…
A “Community Character” Inventory
…Your Inventory Community character is not monolithic or uniform. The answers to the questions posed below may differ depending on which part of your community you are studying. Mid-20th century subdivisions will have different attributes…
Let’s Plan on Walking
…be navigated on foot. Since the mid-20th century, however, it’s been unthinkable to develop a place where you can’t drive. In order to make room for bigger roads and parking lots, we often sacrifice the…
Where America’s Oil Industry Was Born
…below). With a population of just over 10,000, Warren is located along the Allegheny River, about 30 miles northeast of Titusville. Warren was another oil hub in the late 19th and early 20th century. But…
21st Century Transportation Planning Challenges
…the dominant form of local travel, rail towns retained the compact form of older communities. The automobile allowed us to spend the 20th century spreading out in all directions. Networks of high-speed highways and local…
Coping With Economic Meltdown
…Century, while the large manufacturers that dominated the economies of the 19th and 20th Centuries are declining. 4. Local long-term wealth creation and economic security are dependent on local ownership of productive capacity; simply receiving…
Overlay Zoning to Protect Surface Waters
…for the appalling condition of most American rivers and lakes in the first half of the 20th Century. As the Clean Water Act brought point source discharges under control in the 1970s and ’80s, the…
