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Revitalizing Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine, national model in the making (Part 3: making impressive progress)

June 15, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

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cincinnati, community, gentrification, historicpreservation, neighborhood, overtherhine, revitalization, smartercities, smartgrowth

This was going to be the final installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati's remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, but I'm on too much of a roll to finish today.  (Or, as my man Van would put it, "it's too late to stop...continued

Smart means inclusive

January 22, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, disinvestment, eminentdomain, gentrification, neighborhood, redevelopment, reinvestment, revitalization, smartgrowth, vacantproperties

Because of various remembrances of Dr. King on Monday, I reminded myself that no one has been hurt by sprawl more than low-income, inner-city, frequently minority populations.  When jobs and investment have fled to new pastures (literally), their neighborhoods have...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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