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Revitalizing Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine (Part 4: making it green)

June 23, 2009

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

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cincinnati, community, globalwarming, greenbuilding, historicpreservation, overtherhine, revitalization, smartercities, smartgrowth, sustainability

  This is the final installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati's remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, potentially a national model for smart, green revitalization.  For previous posts in the series, visit Part 1 (the legacy and the challenge), Part 2 (building on...continued

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

Revitalizing Over-the-Rhine (Part 2: building on the neighborhood’s assets)

June 8, 2009

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

Tags:
cincinnati, community, historicpreservation, neighborhood, overtherhine, redevelopment, revitalization, smartercities, smartgrowth

Last week I wrote the first installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati's remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.  As I wrote then, this distinct and historic quarter adjacent to Cincinnati's downtown is full of promise but bears considerable scars from decades of disinvestment,...continued

Revitalizing Over-the-Rhine (Part 1: the legacy and the challenge)

June 2, 2009

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

Tags:
cincinnati, community, globalwarming, historicpreservation, neighborhood, overtherhine, redevelopment, revitalization, smartercities, smartgrowth

     Cincinnati's historic and very centrally located Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is poised to become one of America's greatest revitalization stories, in the process creating a national exemplar of green, sustainable development.  But a lot of things will need to happen in...continued

Another great revitalization-in-progress: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine

April 20, 2009

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

Tags:
cincinnati, community, findlaymarket, neighborhood, overtherhine, redevelopment, revitalization, smartgrowth

       Some great folks at the University of Cincinnati have begun to acquaint me with an exciting revitalization effort going on in the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of their city.  In many ways, what I have learned so far -...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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