Urban Edge
Crowded Cities; Expensive Parks; and Difficult Landlords: Urban Insights From Around The Web
Highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.
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How Do You Approach "Preservation" When It's Not Buildings That Are At Risk?
In San Francisco, officials are experimenting with ways to protect cultural institutions and businesses, as opposed to buildings and plazas.
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Houston's diverse. But its neighborhoods? Sometimes that's another story.
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Houston's Floods, Austin's Apartments; and Arlington's Ballparks: Urban Insights From Around The Web
Highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.
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What the Evolution of Two Frank Sharp Developments Says About Houston
Who could have predicted that two communities, built by the same developer, to serve the same population, would diverge so starkly?
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