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Visions of Vibrancy: New York City
The vibrancy of cities comes in all shapes and sizes. Many believe that what works in internationally known cosmopolitan settings may not be applicable for cities such as Jacksonville, which have struggled with embracing walkability. If we look hard enough, we may realize that this type of view should...
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LaVilla of the North: Harlem
Metro Jacksonville explores a New York City neighborhood built on the early 20th century cultural movements originally experienced in districts like Jacksonville's LaVilla.
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The Downtown Miami Skyline Story
Melissa Hege, AICP, the Miami Downtown Development Authority's manager of Urban Planning and Transportation, shares a 3D model of current, under construction and proposed projects that will dramatically alter the city's skyline. Take a look!
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More Attractions Headed Florida's Way
I-Drive 360 will feature several attractions, including the little sister of the famous London Eye, a 400-foot-tall cantilevered observation wheel with enclosed glass capsules, the Orlando Eye.
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Neighborhood Fights FDOT and Wins
Riverside's battle for a more thoughtful Fuller Warren Bridge design isn't the first time a neighborhood has clashed with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). During the early 1990s, Tampa's Seminole Heights took on the FDOT and won. Here's a look at the results, 20 years later.
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Gainesville: A Bastion of Liberalism in North Florida
Home to the University of Florida, with a population of 124,354, Gainesville is the largest city in North Central Florida and closest mid-sized city to Jacksonville.
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Images of Working Waterfronts: Tarpon Springs
A working watefront is a district where water-dependent activity, such as ports and fishing docks, are in great abundance. Just about every city on the coast or a river has their own version. However, as time goes on, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find those that have been able to maintain...
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Which Downtown Is Ahead? Jacksonville's or Tampa's?
Florida's first major cities have more in common than one would imagine in the rise, fall and rebirth of their historic downtown cores. With that in mind, there may be tools and ideas that one community has successfully implemented that the other could benefit from.
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Jacksonville vs Milwaukee
This Great Lakes port city has reversed its downtown fortunes and is now growing again. Why can't Jacksonville?
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Buffalo: America's Best Designed City (Video)
The story of Buffalo, New York's world class urban design and how today's generation is rediscovering and restoring 'America's Best Designed City.'
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