Redevelopment

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/25/2023
  

  Atlanta's BeltLine Project a Case Study in Park-Driven "Green Gentrification"

  by Dan Immergluck

  Although the ambitious combination of multiuse trails and apartment complexes "was designed to connect Atlantans and improve their quality of life, it has driven up housing costs on nearby land and pushed low-income households out to suburbs with fewer services than downtown neighborhoods."

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  10/5/2022
  

  The Limits of Nonprofit Urban Development in Boston

  by Claire Dunning

  In Boston, nonprofit agencies became the principal vehicle for redevelopment. While they could empower residents of poor communities to compete for grants and negotiate with city authorities, they couldn't make a deep impact on inequality in the city and let city agencies off the hook for discriminatory policies. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  12/13/2021
  

  Preservationists Want to Save Penn Station. Yes, That Penn Station.

  by Kriston Capps

  The one thing every New Yorker can agree on is that Penn Station is terrible. Why is this benighted hellhole being championed for historic preservation? 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  2/5/2021
  

  On Baltimore: Narratives and City Making

  by Bo McMillan

  A Review of Mary Rizzo's "Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire," which argues that development interests in the city have used popular culture to craft an image of eccentric white ethnic residents that erases the city's racial segregation and the interests of the city's Black majority.