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Tech Helps Planners Weigh Development, Historic Preservation
A University of Pennsylvania project aims to make it easier for city planners to gauge resident preference for preserving historic homes against municipal needs for higher-density housing.
May 28, 2021 •
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In this month’s installment of the Innovation of the Month series, we highlight OurPlan, a project that is gathering and organizing land use preferences from actual residents to help planners better weigh development and preservation options. MetroLab’s Ben Levine and Josh Schacht spoke with the leaders of
New Book Examines Public Housing as a Locus of Political Power planetizen.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from planetizen.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
People often think of public housing as a failure in Atlanta.
The city embraced the idea early on. It opened the first project in the country, Techwood Homes, in 1934. And after that, Atlanta kept building public housing. At one point, 50,000 tenants 10% of Atlanta’s population lived in government-funded units.
But by 1980, the projects became known as centers for crime and poor living conditions. That year, Akira Drake Rodriguez points out in her new book “Divergent Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing,” the city found ten thousand housing code violations at Techwood Homes and neighboring Clark Howell Homes.