Subject: Neighborhood Change

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    Revitalizing Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine (Series Conclusion - Making It Green)

    This is the final installment of my miniseries (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) about Cincinnati’s remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, potentially a national model for smart, green revitalization. The reason that revitalizing Over-the-Rhine should be just as important to environmentalists…

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    Revitalizing Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine (Part 3 - the Progress)

    This was going to be the final installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati’s remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, but I’m on too much of a roll to finish today. (Or, as my man Van would put it, “it’s too late to stop…

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    Revitalizing Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine (Part 2)

    Last week I wrote the first installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati’s remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. As I wrote then, this distinct and historic quarter adjacent to Cincinnati’s downtown is full of promise but bears considerable scars from decades of disinvestment,…

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    Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine, On the Verge

    Cincinnati’s historic and very centrally located Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is poised to become one of America’s greatest revitalization stories, in the process creating a national exemplar of green, sustainable development. But a lot of things will need to happen in the…

  • NYT in a Time Warp?

    The following is a letter to the editor I submitted to The New York Times: The Times’ Aug. 8 article, “Housing Program Moves Poor to the Suburbs, and Tensions Follow,” about which David Varady has written on Rooflines, is irresponsible…

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    In New Jersey’s Hub City, A Push to Change Government Gets Big Government Resistance

    In the 1970s, New Brunswick, NJ was struggling. Like other New Jersey cities experiencing the hangover of race riots of the 1960s, the schools were in decline, white flight began to set in, and all of a sudden, the Hub…

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    Another Day in the Lower Ninth Ward

    Sweat pours down Reginald “Trigger” Smiths face as he cleans out a storage unit squeezed next to three FEMA trailers on his lot in the Lower Ninth Ward, one of the New Orleans neighborhoods most devastated by Hurricane Katrina. He…

  • Golf Course Wars in Benton Harbor

    Golf courses have been lightning rods and symbols for class struggle around the world, as in Morelos, Mexico, where a golf course sucking up the town of Tepoztlan as water led to deadly violent clashes in 1996. Golf courses are…