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urban development
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Land Use Prof Blog
Public support of land for sports … in California?
Here’s a second day of stories from California that exemplify changing attitudes towards public land use and private wealth. The Athletics baseball franchise plans to move from its current…
Land Use Prof Blog
“Hometown Week”: The land use transformations of a suburban hometown …
[The first in a series called "Hometown week"] I'm spending mid-summer in the town I grew up in -- Silver Spring, Maryland, a middle class suburb just north of Washington,…
Land Use Prof Blog
The decline of the traditional commuter city?
While everybody knows that jobs are moving out of cities and to suburbs, there are still plenty of people who commute to the city each day, right? After all,…
Land Use Prof Blog
The amazing Dubai …
[Global Sunday] Can giant land use projects make a nation? Dubai certainly appears to think so; perhaps no other place in the world has spent more money and effort…
PropertyProf Blog
Town-Gown Development Issues
By propertyprof
Nicole Garnett has a very interesting post at PrawfsBlawg on town-gown issues in campus development programs, and Ilya Somin has comments on Nicole's post at the VC.Ben Barros[Comments are held…
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Young and old in revitalizing downtowns …
What kinds of commerce should cities encourage to revitalize their downtowns? I was recently in Albuquerque, which, like many sun belt cities, saw its old commercial downtown whither in…
PropertyProf Blog
Columbia’s Manhattanville Expansion
By propertyprof
This week's NY Times Magazine has an interesting article by Daphne Eviatar on Columbia University's expansion into the Manhattanville section of West Harlem. Here's an excerpt:When Columbia announced its plans…
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Emotion and money at the World Trade Center site
A report from New York is that the World Trade Center memorial is now expected to cost nearly a billion dollars. No one knows where the money would come…
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No more “inner city”
In an otherwise fine essay that debunks the supposed crisis of academic achievement of boys, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Chait Barnett wrote in the Washington Post on Sunday that…
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Eminent domain and insular minorities
One of the most remarkable public responses to law in recent years has been the outcry over the Supreme Court's upholding the broad right of government to take private…