Link Roundup

Photo by NR Flickr user Brian Wolfe. The weekly link roundup is a collection of links related to Newburgh, revitalization, urban planning and anything else that might inspire change or create dialogue.

Sad farewell to Balmville Tree [THR]
The Historic Preservation Guide to Complete Streets [HV Blogs]
The Passaic River: A postindustrial river reimagined [Doggerel]
A Superficial Solution for Crime That Actually Works [PS]
The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town [Washington Post]
A single image captures how the American house has changed over 400 years [Washington Post]
Developers Hope to Change the Face of Transit Hub in Jamaica, Queens [NYT]
Lessons in Waterfront Revitalization from Boston and Pittsburgh [PPG]

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Photo by NR flickr userJohn Leighton. The weekly link roundup is a collection of links related to Newburgh, revitalization, urban planning and anything else that might inspire change or create dialogue.

Where to go for pizza in Newburgh? [Newburgh Food Journal]
Millennials Will Live In Cities Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen Before [Gizmodo]
Why Wal-Mart, an icon of suburbia, had to urbanize its hometown [WSJ]
Buffalo, NY: Where the Cool Kids Want to Live [Free Enterprise]
The Many Benefits of Making One-Way Streets Two-Way [City Lab]
How does public transportation concentration influence neighbourhood median household income? [Sage]

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“Christina” by NR Flickr user Brian Wolfe. The weekly link roundup is a collection of links related to Newburgh, revitalization, urban planning and anything else that might inspire change or create dialogue.

Newburgh violent crime is down 15 percent: police [THR]
Newburgh Habitat gets $100k grant for live/work project [THR]
Section of Balmville Tree in danger of collapsing [Mid Hudson News]
$200 million plan for old Psych Center site [PJ]
Downtown is Looking Up in Cincinnati [This Old House]
Tactical urbanism in Caracas – rebuilding the city with art and culture [Positive News]
Leveraging Public Investment in the Arts [Georgia Council for Arts]
Heritage Tourism Lessons from Jurassic World [NY History Blog]

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The weekly link roundup is a collection of links related to Newburgh, revitalization, urban planning and anything else that might inspire change or create dialogue. Photo by NR flickr pool user Jillian Elder, Victory Designs.

Transplant sees Newburgh ripe for wine shop [THR]
EcoShrimp in Newburgh [THR]
Newburgh eyes increase in illegal dumping fines [THR]
108 Join Walking Tour of Historic Newburgh Cemetery [HSNBH]
Affordable rental housing complex opens in Newburgh [THR]
Last Stop on the L Train: Detroit [NYT]
For Sale: The $100 House [NYT]
Middletown to Get More Affordable Housing [Epoch Times]
A Second Life For Old Shipping Containers: Farms, Shops and Housing [Nation Swell]

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“Boys going fishing, Hudson River” by NR flickr userJohn Leighton. The weekly link roundup is a collection of links related to Newburgh, revitalization, urban planning and anything else that might inspire change or create dialogue.

Sicilian Town Tells Outsiders: Take Our Homes. Please. [NYT]
Silvercup Studios Is Turning a Bronx Warehouse Into Its 3rd Production Complex [NYT]
Strategies for good urban retail [Better! Cities & Towns]
Affordable Housing, Always [City Lab]
It’s Getting Harder and Harder to Tell Brooklyn’s and Manhattan’s Real-Estate Markets Apart [NY Mag]
Town That Chased Away Starbucks Sees Its Identity Being Endangered Again [NYT]

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The weekly link roundup is a collection of links related to Newburgh, revitalization, urban planning and anything else that might inspire change or create dialogue. Photo by NR flick pool user Brian Wolfe

More Alices [Upstater]
Hidden History [Metroland]
Más artistas se mudan al Valle de Hudson [La Voz]
Newburgh residents to be focus of documentary film [THR]
Former Goshen FBI office moves to new $4.5M building at Stewart Airport [THR]
Bad Commutes Make an Economy Worse [Chicago Mag]
Furnituremaker Atlas Industries Introduces a Chic New Line of Beds [Architectural Digest]
For Cities, Big-Box Stores Are Becoming Even More of a Terrible Deal [Institute for Local Self Resilience]
Why American Companies are Moving Downtown (full PDF report) [Smart Growth America]

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