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Posts tagged urban planning

September 3, 2012

 

concrete row houses in Gary

Concrete Utopia

Gary—a city that social reformers had already dubbed the “City of the Century”—seemed a perfect site to try out new types of urban housing.

September 19, 2011

 

White River State Park

Reenvisioning The City Of Streams

Urban planner George Kessler raved about the Circle City's diagonal thoroughfares and plentiful waterways, but bemoaned its hands-off attitude toward growth.

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