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Revitalizing cities and towns
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Chapter 4 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide

America contains many underperforming human habitats — places where it is hard to work or live, hard to carry on a satisfying personal and communal life. Some of these are in cities, but others are in suburbs or other locales. This chapter looks at how to tackle familiar problems such as failing downtown malls and dangerous public housing projects; it also delves into how to make communities of all kinds more livable, satisfying, and successful.

Greensboro development shows the value of persistence
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New Urban News Article with images, 10/1/2004
The developer and designer set specific goals for placemaking and walkability in this infill revitalization — and then followed through on implementation.
If success has many fathers, then Southside in Greensboro, North Carolina, is well cared for. Locally, the 10-acre urban redevelopment is considered to be something of a marvel. Nationally, it won an American Planning Association Outstanding Planning Implementation award for 2003. But this wasn’t always so. The project initially met with a great deal of skepticism on the part of public officials and real estate professionals. As Thomas Low of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), the project designer, reports, Southside faced daunting challenges in the implementation of specific details that had great bearing on its success.

Boulder: a model for excellence in mixed-use design
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New Urban News Article with images, 12/1/2003
The Colorado city has two Charter Award winning projects and a host of infill developments that are worthy of emulation.
In less than a decade, Boulder’s downtown has tripled in length. Not too long ago, downtown was defined by the four-block-long Pearl Street Mall, one of the livelier “pedestrian malls” in the US (and one of the few that survive). Now the mixed-use, urban heart of the city extends 13 blocks along Pearl Street, the result of the redevelopment of automobile-oriented parcels both east and west of the Mall. Two built projects on Pearl Street have won Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Awards — a unique achievement.