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What To Do With The Shipyards?
The City of Jacksonville will soon be the owner of 44-acres of prime riverfront property. With limited money set aside for capital improvements and a depressed economy, a Columbus, OH project serves as one example of how to move forward with the Shipyards.
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The 1992 Downtown White Paper: The Proposals
The second part of the acclaimed Downtown White Paper of 1992. Produced by a select group of professionals, architects, and gentlemen businessmen, the White Paper confronted the nightmare scenario left in the wake of the cities ill managed Hemming Park improvement project. Reeling from the shocking...
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2030 Mobility Plan: Development Zones
To ensure the creation of a successful multimodal transportation network, the incorporation of complementing land use objectives is a critical objective. Since our community is diverse in terms of neighborhood characteristics, age, building fabric, population density and needs, a location-based approach...
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Downtown: The ThunderLizard Years.
The Thunderlizard Years. In previous articles we have discussed the rise of Jacksonville as a bustling metropolis whose heart and soul, like those of every city before the 20th Century, was located in its hot glowing center. Downtown. Big Shopping Conglomerates, glass enshrined temples of corporate...
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Crumbled Infrastructure: Moncrief Mt. Olive Graveyard
Cemeteries are increasingly becoming a feature of the countries broken infrastructure. Often neglected to the point of ruin, some have become fodder for vandals and even dumping grounds. This is largely because graveyards were traditionally cared for by cemetery associations, and over the years, they...
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Retrofitting Suburbia. Ellen Dunham Jones
Visionary Jacksonville Planning Department Director, Bill Killingsworth, recently brought the meteoric Dunham Jones to speak with our planning department. Ellen Dunham-Jones teaches architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is an award-winning architect and a board member of the Congress...
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Revitalizing Cities with Innovative Parks
14 ways to build out innovative parks in crowded cities by Peter Harnik, director, Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and author of "Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities.
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The Great Reset: What Will It Mean for Jacksonville?
A local planner reviews Urban theorist Richard Florida's explanation of why the recession is the mother of invention and ponders what it means for Jacksonville.
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JTA's plans for I-95/JTB Interchange Shortsighted
Metro Jacksonville explains why JTA's current plans for the I-95/Bulter Boulevard Interchange may be shortsighted.
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Creating Synergy: History, The Landing or Metro Park?
"As Downtown goes, so goes your city. judge a city on Downtown and it can't be a ghost town." - Former Mayor Jake Godbold. In an attempt to resolve the dedicated parking obligation for the Landing, the future of historic preservation in Jacksonville has been thrown into the middle of the JEDC's...
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