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Urbanizing Gas Stations
Why Gas-Station Restaurants Are Great for Suburbs A new crop of restaurants in gas stations, like Seoul Food D.C., will help suburbs grow into more authentic urban places. CityLab, Nov. 14, 2014 It’s 1 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I’m at Seoul Food D.C., eating a kimchi-bacon rice bowl as I watch cars whoosh down…
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Ban Flash
Best Practices: Revamp Your Website Architects’ sites all tend to suffer from the same set of problems. Here’s a guide to avoiding those mistakes and ensuring that your firm puts its best face forward online. Architect, November 2014 Squinting to read tiny white words set on a black background? Not knowing whether to click or…
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Suburban Poverty
How to Tackle Growing Suburban Poverty Houston’s Neighborhood Centers has spent years addressing this hidden problem—which will spread throughout the U.S. CityLab, Oct. 31, 2014 Think of a nonprofit that serves the poor, and the first image that comes to mind will likely be distinctly urban: an old, brick YMCA building, maybe with a neon…
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OMA, OLIN Design Bridge Park
OMA and OLIN Named Winners of D.C. Bridge Park Design Competition Architectural Record, Oct. 20, 2014 On October 15, OMA + OLIN was named the winner of the design competition for 11th Street Bridge Park, a planned linear park spanning Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia River that has been widely compared to the High Line and could…
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A Housing Breakthrough
Together, a design studio and community-development corporation are transforming housing in the Rio Grande Valley. CityLab, Oct. 1, 2014 Brownsville, Texas, sits high in the rankings where cities want to come in low. It’s the poorest city in America, with 36 percent of its residents living in poverty. (By contrast, the poverty level in the…
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