May 2012
8 posts
Community Fighting Mad Over Bad Houses | Ohio... →
Tax credits target low-income areas →
Whitehall might raze 10% of condos in troubled... →
City, private funds might raze vacant East Side... →
“We don’t want them knocking stuff down, leaving us with flatlands.”
– Kathleen Bailey, Near East Side Area Commission quoted in 128 ‘worst of the worst’ houses slated to be first to fall | The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus Mileposts | May 2, 1940: Poindexter... →
“Just as the Romantic imagination was fired by the ruins of classicism,...”
– When industry gives way to art - FT.com
City will pay to cover graffiti | The Columbus... →
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April 2012
7 posts
Blighted Poindexter Tower to be demolished soon |... →
Detroit Struggles With Financial Rescue Plan -... →
“The use of street art as an economic development tool is an ironic turn,...”
– Gallery walls: Cities embrace street art as a ticket to success | Grist
County likely to OK fund for land bank | The... →
Sprinklers too costly in casino-area apartments,... →
March 2012
6 posts
Blight that defoliates popular boxwood plants now... →
Bill Would Provide $4B for Urban Demolition Bonds →
Judge’s huge fines get landlords’ attention | The... →
Chic shelters designed to revitalize neighborhoods... →
February 2012
3 posts
The 3 People Overseeing LA's Redevelopment Agency... →
January 2012
11 posts
Penn South and Pruitt-Igoe, Starkly Different... →
Why Historic Buildings Are Greener Than... →
Imploding The Pruitt-Igoe Myth| News |... →
Weinland Park work fueled by tax dollars | The... →
Cities seek help to bulldoze homes | The Columbus... →
Like drugs, TIFs effective when used as prescribed... →
December 2011
1 post
“It had been a long, slogging parcel of concern,” said Jeffry Harris, the city’s...”
– Worthington wants to buy house connected to shooting of teen after prank | The Columbus Dispatch
November 2011
1 post
Plan could help cities pay for blighted homes |... →
October 2011
4 posts
Watch(via Banks demolish foreclosed homes, raise eyebrows | Marketplace From American Public Media)
Documentary on Neighborhood Blight Released By... →
Foreclosures Are Killing Us - NYTimes.com →
August 2011
11 posts
Creek Restoration Keys Cincinnati's Battle Against... →
“[C]ities use blight-related findings of public nuisance to demolish properties...”
– Urban Blight vs. Property Rights - Your Houston News: Opinion:
“Ever look down the street? You see them open lots? This whole area is gonna...”
– Harry Bennett quoted in East Baltimore: Where the recession never ended | Marketplace From American Public Media
Watch(via East Baltimore: Where the recession never ended | Marketplace From American Public Media)
Bill to clean up foreclosure process targets loan... →
“A second, much more consequential disaster occurred two centuries later, when...”
– The Columbian Exchange and the Real Story of Globalization - WSJ.com
“Ultra-Ex advances a forward-looking mission: to document the ecological benefits...”
– Finding the Potential in Vacant Lots - In the Garden - NYTimes.com