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Mary Newsom
May 22, 2013
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Imagining a trail of parks through South End

Fact No. 1: A sidewalk runs beside the light rail tracks through South End, from Morehead Street to a little north of the Scaleybark Station. Fact. No. 2: South End, which grew up from what had been an industrial sector of the city (nearby Dilworth and Wilmore neighborhoods notwithstanding), does not have a park. Add those facts. Thus was born the

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Mary Newsom
May 15, 2013
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Changing times, changing city growth

Using Twitter to report Tuesday's public lecture
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Mary Newsom
May 13, 2013
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New name, new money plan for streetcar

Will a new name, a new tie-in to the county’s overall transit plan, and a new funding scheme using no property tax money mean a new outcome that puts an expanded streetcar project into the “yes” column with the Charlotte City Council? New City Manager Ron Carlee, city staff, and the CEO of the Charlotte Area Transit System,

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Mary Newsom
May 08, 2013
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Can Charlotte growth policies get smarter?

How can the city of Charlotte boost both the value of its neighborhoods and their quality of life? What national trends should developers, planners and neighborhood residents be aware of? How do different development patterns affect the need for city spending? Those questions and more will be part of the discussion at a public lecture

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Mary Newsom
May 06, 2013
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Jane Jacobs walkers explored Charlotte’s trendy, and not-so-trendy areas

From Philadelphia to San Francisco, from Hinesburg, Vt., to Morrilton, Ark., on Saturday, May 4, people around the country were getting together to explore parts of their cities, in honor of the late urban activist and author Jane Jacobs, born May 4, 1916.  Photo slideshow See photos from the two walks, at article's end

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Mary Newsom
April 24, 2013
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Contest-winning photos evoke sense of place

When PlanCharlotte.org decided to hold a photo contest to celebrate our first birthday, we expected we’d receive plenty of snapshot-caliber photos. We were delighted to be wrong. Among a number of strong photos evoking a powerful sense of place, Kevin J. Beaty’s photos took top honors. To see a photo gallery of the best of the

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Mary Newsom
April 17, 2013
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Regional cooperation at risk?

Analysis
The implied threat Monday from Charlotte City Council members, to withdraw support for the proposed Monroe Bypass, is more fallout from an increasingly fractious local political battle over control of Charlotte’s airport.  And now, that battle might be putting at risk some long-nurtured regional cooperation. Civic leaders in the

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Mary Newsom
April 10, 2013
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Celebrate Jane Jacobs with 2 neighborhood walks

If you know who Jane Jacobs was and understand the role her work has played in revolutionizing thinking about cities and planning since the 1960s, you'll understand why her birthday is a time to encourage city-dwellers to get to know their own places a little better. For example, she wrote that new ideas must use old buildings. She didn’

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Melissa Currie
April 09, 2013
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Easy access to work? Charlotte’s not atop list

Charlotte ranks near the bottom in a recent study of access to jobs via automobiles in the top 51 U.S. metro areas. Raleigh ranks even lower. The study, Access Across America, by David Levinson, the R.P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation Engineering at the University of Minnesota, ranks the Charlotte metro area No. 40, with the Raleigh area next

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John Chesser
March 28, 2013
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Boundary change boosts Charlotte metro population

In January, the Charlotte metro area population was 1.8 million people. In February, the metro area population was 2.3 million. Where did the half-million people come from? New boundaries were drawn for metropolitan statistical areas.   In February 2013, new MSA definitions* took effect. The changes, based on commuting ties among counties,

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Planning
Imagining a trail of parks through South End
Transportation
New name, new money plan for streetcar
Planning
Jane Jacobs walkers explored Charlotte’s trendy, and not-so-trendy areas
Transportation
Anthony Foxx charlotte mayor secretary transportation
Environment
Resilience: Many cities, many meanings

 

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