Redefining Urban
The word “urban” pertains to things associated with cities. In the past several decades, it was a code word associated with ethnicity and lower socio-economic classes. However, urban today has as much to...
Master Planning Birmingham’s Master Park
A group of railroad preservationists and young professionals kept alive a long dormant dream for a park in the Railroad Reservation District. The growing impetus for Downtown revitalization and a strategic alliance with...
Downtown Neighborhood Power
Birmingham’s Central Business District sits almost entirely in two neighborhoods that wield considerably more power than most people realize. But changes in Downtown’s economic and social landscape could gauge just how well rich and...
The Case for Economic Diversity: The New Millenium’s Civil Rights Issue
Black political power turned into economic power in Atlanta. The same can't be said of Birmingham, where diversity is fast becoming not just a metter of race, but ethnicity and gender as well.
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The Hope VI Experiment
in 2000, the Birmingham Housing Authority embarked on an experiment that would raze the Metropolitan Gardens public housing project to the ground and seed a new kind of neighborhood using a $35 million federal...
