How
walkable is your house?
Just plug in your own address and see what happens.
Bravo to the programmers!
The
Dollar Value of New Urbanism
Affluent
leaving suburbs
Data: even green buildings have
ignored the effect of their location
Washington Post:
The End of Sprawl? Will Camden's Low Density Development, such as the
poorly thought out Campbell Soup Gateway project rob It's future
prosperity??
126 Delancey St $1,100,000
This property in Philadelphia is one mile from downtown Camden by
PATCO's High Speed Modern Subway!
Location! Location! Camden has it!
Rittenhouse Square
is the heart of the most exciting entertaining, dining, shopping and cultural
neighborhood in Philadelphia, less than 10 minutes from downtown Camden by PATCO
"Builder" magazine says that downtowns "could lead the housing industry
out of its slump. Second-tier downtowns
within driving distance of large cities "will blossom."
The average price
per square foot
for attached housing now exceeds that for detached housing.
Center City
Philadelphia
Outperforming Suburbs
(Large swaths of Camden's transit rich downtown is virtually resident free and
wide open for development and virtually in Philly's Center )
Urban Elegance
Urban Waterfront
Architecture Worldwide
Campbell's Soup
The PATCO Hi-Speedline
Camden, the Del Val antidote to sprawl, is one subway stop to
Downtown Philadelphia
River LIne
New
Urbanism Clustered, Mixed-Use, Multi-Modal Neighborhood Design
"...if you fail to design the public realm with deliberate artistry, by so doing degrade and dishonor the public realm...""
National Association of Attorneys General:
Talk about the 150th anniversary of Dred Scott Decision: zoning and suburbs= segregation.
Unlike Camden, codes written by teams of New Urbanists, like the new one prepared for Miami is form-based. It invites the mixing of residences, stores, schools, and other amenities in compact, traditional neighborhoods. It guides the form and placement of buildings so they contribute to the life of the street and create humane public spaces.
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An extensive repository of data on the City of Camden is available at http://www.camconnect.org, a local Camden-based data warehouse. The website includes information on health, housing, education, public safety, and municipal finances. Many public documents have been archived for easy access as well. Chicago to be a high-rise city where the proximity of so many highly skilled professionals makes markets more efficient, supports the cosmopolitan culture that attracts investment and leads to more service jobs for non-professionals
Smart Growth: Imagine no
morning rush hour, being able to walk to dinner from your home or go shopping,
all while being able to cut down on pollution and traffic congestion. From Alaska
to South Jersey, the buzz of this form of Smart Growth
is increasing at an
astounding pace. Brookings Institution: Disillusionment with auto-dependent suburbs is on the
rise. DRPA: sprawling parking lots have become an obsolete use of
land, counterintuitive to smart growth. Janine Bauer,
a transportation project attorney in Philadelphia, said transit-oriented
development is the wave of the future. “This is
development that improves the community by cutting down traffic congestion,
pollution and stress on residents,” Bauer said. “These are the kind of
communities that people want live in. You don’t want to have a stressful
commute everyday, especially if you can get on a reliable transit line like
PATCO. Then, with the new TODs, you can dine or shop after work without every
getting into a car. These communities are a no-brainer."
From the CNU
'06 Convention, Developer
Yaromir
Steiner (Audio) Re: Coopers Crossing,
Camden, NJ
Why Join CNU?
Charter of the New Urbanism Learn About New Urbanism
Prince (Charles) "The hastening pace of urbanization means..."
It's Official: Camden, New Jersey: highest poverty rate in
the U.S.
-U.S. Census Bureau
Cleaning NJ's Political House: ...lurking behind all of these reasons may be Mr. Christie, the biggest and baddest cop of all in NJ
,,, If there's one thing the Camden COO could use, it's an inspiring civic vision. In an age when American cities are competing for jobs and residents, a modern mayor or COO can't be just a social worker. If the next leader expects people to stick around, he's going to have to conjure a dream of a better, more amenity-rich future. He'll need a plan that, in the words of Chicago's Daniel Burnham, has the "magic to stir men's blood." (paraphrasing) Inga Saffron Inquirer Architecture Critic
Witness
History and Inspiration from Mario Savio Video on You Tube"...
we... don't mean to have any process upon us,
don't mean to be made into any product, don't mean to end up being bought by... anyone!
The
Convenient Remedy for an Inconvenient Truth
The following letter from John
Norquist, President and CEO of CNU, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on
Thursday, May 17, 2007.We
would use less energy living closer together
June
16, 2007, From Sprawl Hell, Los
Angeles CA., L.A. Times
6/09/07 According to Marie York, chair of the American Planning Association's New Urbanism Design Division, living in a neighborhood designed with the pedestrian in mind could save a family enough in transportation costs to cover the mortgage. "In a two-income household," she says, "if one person can get by without having a car for transit, that's an average savings of $680 a month, which in turn can translate into the possibility of homeownership. So it's a huge economic benefit.
6/09/07 Location_Efficient_Mortgages:
In effect, allows urban dwellers who depend less
on automobile use to purchase a more expensive home. Petition Rep. Andrews,
Senators Lautenberg and Menendez for Camden to be added to this short list of
eligible cities. Few cities in America can boast Camden's location and
transportation assets. With one transfer, PATCO has connections to AMTRAK
and Philadelphia International Airport thru Center City Philadelphia, less than
ten minutes away.
6/11/07 Campbell's
Soup's Drive To, Out-of Scale New Business Park Brings Sprawl Into the Heart of
the City.
From
You Tube: "Sprawling from Grace, Driven to Madness"
6/11/07 Driving is taking its toll in the Chicago region
How walkable is your neighborhood?
The Importance of considering Social Stratification in Camden, New Jersey Renewal Plans - Michael McAteer
6/03/07 Unconventionality of Old Philadelphiia - Influence on New Urbanism
James
Howard Kunstler
official website
Author of "The Long Emergency,"The City in Mind," "Home From
Nowhere," "The Geography of Nowhere" and producer of the award
winning documentary, "The End of Suburbia"
"...if you fail to design the public realm with deliberate artistry, and by
so doing degrade and
dishonor the public realm..."
6/01/07
CNU
Proudly Announces the 2007 Winners of
the Charter Awards: Coopers Crossing
Camden, NJ ( An NU example of what
Campbell's Soup project could be.)
Coopers Crossing by Torti Gallas and Partners and Urban
Design Associates
5/24/07 NJ Gov. Corzine Set To Destroy Riverfront State Prison In Camden
!!!
5/30/07 Camden Announces
Destruction of 2nd Downtown Prison, Camden County Jail, Just Days After
Announcing Tear Down of Riverfront State Pen Makes
Downtown Camden Wide Open, Prime Real Estate for Development
Photos of PATCO
neighborhoods, including CNU tour sites:
Rittenhouse Square, Haddonfield, Collingswood
On the CNU Tour Program:
Yorkship
Square A
Better Mickle Blvd.
City
Real Estate Transactions Camden
After the Fall by Rutgers Prof. Howard Gillette
From the Grave Walt Whitman Challenges New Urbanists
TOD South Jersey: The purpose of this work is to create station plans that allow DRPA and PATCO to evaluate station development interest relative to their primary business of transit. Corzines Katrina? -Michael McAteer
"Urban Renewal is impossible
where there is political instability."
William Apgar former Undersecretary of HUD
Support the Camden State Takeover
Legislation:
An alternative to eminent domain-Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Camden, New Jersey: "'That's the sound of a city coming back to life.' " For Dranoff, the developer of Philadelphia's Symphony House, Venice Lofts and the Left Bank, there's nothing left to prove. " "tipping point reached,"
PATCO Transit Oriented Development Plans.pdf
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the EDA's real estate development capabilities can assist your
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The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, the London-based educational charity established by the Prince of Wales to teach and demonstrate the principles of traditional architecture and urban design. Examples of European New Urbanism are continuing to cross the Atlantic and inspire planners and designers in the US.
6/04/07 The New Urbanism: Architect and author Philip Bess on how Aristotle, God,and baseball teach us how to understand cities.
carfree.com Chronicles carfree cities, past, present, and future. Solutions to the problem of the urban automobile.
What
is an Inner City?
America's
Dirty Little Secret
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Camden, New Jersey is only one mile from Philadelphia's commercial, historic,
tourist and high-end residential districts. Camden's waterfront is virtually in
Philadelphia, only one subway stop, a 5 minute ride away on the ultra-modern, clean, PATCO
HI-SPEED commuter rail line.
4/14/07 Skilled
Visa = Revived Camden -a proposal by Michael McAteer
Swamped
by petitions for work visas from highly educated or skilled foreigners, immigration
authorities have conducted a lottery for the
first time to determine which ones will be considered, federal officials
announced yesterday.
Walt Whitman, lived in Camden, where he wrote the final edition of
"Leaves of Grass," and is buried here in Harleigh Cemetery, next to
the Ferry Ave, PATCO HI SPEED rail station.
As a CNU member, you are part of the nation's foremost organization working to reform sprawling growth patterns and restore traditions of city and town design and development. Join CNU
What
is "Urban Renewal?" -Michael McAteer
... American ghetto, problems, not an excuse
for failure or benefits..."
Official
Camden Government Links
Challenges
Charter
of the New Urbanism
Links
To Top New Urbanism Sites Worldwide
Town and Urban Elegance: The
Congress for the New Urbanism / image bank
Walt Whitman lived, wrote the final edition of "Leaves of Grass," died and is buried in Camden, NJ.
Feb 1, 2007 Wanted:
ORGANIZATIONAL
CAPACITY BUILDERS
to make "7 for 1"
A PATHWAY OUT OF POVERTY, A REALITY.
5/15/07 Just Opened:
The Camden Conference Center, which features a 181-seat theater, a 90-seat
banquet room and a full-service kitchen, is located inside the Camden Technology
Center at the corner of Penn Street and Broadway. The center has state-of-the-art
teleconference technology, including an audio/video recording room, full
Internet wiring, a 50-inch flat-screen information center and a video projection
system.
Northern Liberties Successful Renewal Hip and Homey
Gay Homesteading Gay PATCO Communities
Rutgers, The Ford Foundation Present: A
Web site driven by a data base of more than 400 aerial and sidewalk-level
images.
Prince
Charles Foundation for the Built Environment On January 27, 2007
England's Royal's Prince Charles and wife, the
duchess of Cornwall, visited
Philadelphia.
No
urban reform could have a greater effect, if successful, than
attacking the culture of single parenthood.
The
normalities of sprawling strip malls may become a thing of the past outside of
Richmond, Virginia as Smart-Growth
Groups seek to change the way their communities are planned and developed.
Regeneration:
Community groups with a sophisticated
culture of urban economics and design should be invited into the process. A good
example of this type of community group is the Design Advocacy Group in
Philadelphia.
" I am a college graduate and I couldn't find work for almost a year.
Someone from the unemployment office advised me to use another address other
than Camden and that's when I finally received calls. " LaVERNE
MITCHELL Camden, quoted in Courier-Post, Dec. 31, 2006 A Leadership Crisis:
Who
will inherit Camden?
| Today's work visa policy regarding skilled immigrations
requires that the applicant have a corporate sponsor, which is virtually always
located in a suburban office park, thereby keeping many American
cities like Camden in a state of perpetual ruin, as official policy diverts
skilled workers, and their families, away from cities, their historic
destination, and into surrounding suburban areas instead. This policy not only segregates people racially, sending educated Asians, Chinese and others into the suburbs, but economically, as the foreign "moneyed" are directed into the suburbs, while uneducated, unskilled and often illegal laborers are directed away from suburban communities. This segregation policy has destroyed the once mythical and magical urban melting pot that was the basis of America's glory. -M. McAteer 4/14/07 Skilled Visa = Revived Camden -a proposal by Michael McAteer |
"There are places I'll
remember
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Jewish Camden Partnership Hopeworks.org Camden Community History Camden Business Resource Map
Camden
Renewal Business Tax Credits The
latest in Camden New Jersey Development Projects
12/03/06 "when church and state are separate,
the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but
where they have been confounded together.., -Michael McAteer
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"It takes twenty years, a full generation, to recover from a collapsed revitalization effort."- Brookings Institute:12 Steps to Revitalizing Downtowns Is Camden New Jersey really necessary? Has it lost its logic for existence?-Michael McAteer
11/15/06
10/01/06 About
Camden's Political Crisis: How will it affect renewal effort?
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Things You Should Know About Camden,
New Jersey July 15, 2006 G. W. Albee, 84, Psychologist Who Tied Poverty and Illness, Dies. Argued that poverty and social deprivation were the root causes of many mental and emotional disorders.The Charette is the
process of New Urbanism; the CNU Charter is its principles. Two "Must Read" books for those interested in real estate development trends, The New Urbanism and how the physical built environment effects social outcomes, : "Home From Nowhere" by James Howard Kunstler and "Suburban Nation" by Andres Duany "Small Urban Infill projects have the magic to stir the souls of men." Re:
Budget Cuts, Urban Studies Department, Rutgers-Camden
Gay PATCO Communities: The Gay community has more than triple
the disposable income of non
gays Urban
Waterfront Architecture Worldwide
Urban Elegance
Fairview
Neighborhood, Yorkship Square, Camden, New Jersey Camden's Waterfront
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"The words of the
prophets are written on the subway walls..." Transportation
centric development |
April 30, 2006 NPR - How will our lives change if gas prices continue to rise? Don Gonyea and Robert Cervero, head of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley, peer into the future: Development of Inner City |
| NPR High Gas Prices To Stimulate Move to High Density, Transportation Oriented Development, Listen to April30,2006 |
May 1, 2006 President Bush Say's High Gasoline Prices to Last Years |
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May 1, 2006 President Bush Say's High Gasoline Prices to Last YearsReport on National Public Radio |
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4/28/06 Few things bode more favorably for Camden than rising gas prices. Many experts predict gas will be above $4.00 per gallon to stay in 18 - 24 months. The fact that your life and limbs are at risk every time you get in a car aside, consider this: with insurance, payments, loan interest, maintenance and gas the average cost of owning and operating a car is close to $400.00 per month. Transportation centric development around commuter rail stations is the state of the art of residential development. There are very few places where transportation oriented development can occur. Camden is one of them. With it's 3 PATCO stations and enviable location, Camden is well poised for a major transformation. Camden won't be so affordable for long. When it comes to investing in real estate, Early Bird "First Movers' reap the windfalls. Motorists seething as gas prices rise...
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Without painters, poets, comedians, writers, craftsmen, musicians, fashion designers, dancers, specialty boutiques, actors, chefs, architects and Bohemians in large numbers cities are just plain drab, boring and uninspiring. In Camden, where are those urban pioneers with the third eye? Anywhere? Camden is a cultural dead zone. Luckily Philadelphia's culturally rich area's are only one mile away. In most "Comeback Cities" policy to attract the arts was a major element of their success. Most of them offered free Creative Space clustered in a neighborhood, a sure way to attract artists. In a city like Camden, with a glut of abandoned properties, it would be easy to find thirty or forty properties appropriate for giving to artists. As a qualification for free space, eligible artists and crafts persons should already be operating a creative space, restaurant or gallery someplace else. That way, city officials will know that applicants are for real, and the city will know exactly what they are getting in a space. Capitalist Democracies are nothing if not adaptive. USA Today, Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey's economy has been hurt by the loss of high paying jobs in high tech industries, two Rutgers University economists, Professors Joseph Seneca and James Hughes told a Senate budget panel today. NY Times: Congress seems to believe that while the United States must be protected from an invasion of educated, bright and ambitious foreign college students, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, we can never have too many low-wage fruit-pickers and dishwashers. In making immigration laws, Congress caters to cheap-labor industries like agribusiness and sweatshop manufacturing while shortchanging the high-tech, high-wage industries on which the future of the American economy depends. What the space race was to the cold war, the "brain race" is to today's peaceful global economic competition. The comprehensive immigration reform America needs is one that slashes unskilled immigration and creates a skill-rewarding points system modeled on those of Australia, Britain and Canada. Harvard
University economist Edward Glaeser has provided ample empirical
evidence that firms gather in particular regions to gain advantages from
common labor pools. Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Lucas maintains
that the driving force in the growth and development of cities and
regions can be found in the productivity gains associated with the
clustering of talented people. 4/13/06 Microsoft Corp. Position On H1b Visa Program Sridhar Krishnaswami in Washington Bush urges US Congress to lift H-1B visa limit Technology and Tolerance: Diversity and High Tech Growth Creative Cities April 9,
2006 CAMDEN LAND and
DREAM: In today's
fast changing world, job skills often become obsolete almost as soon as they
are acquired. The only way for today's skilled employees and entrepreneurs
to remain relevant in the market is to be creative and in a constant
learning mode, while improving and acquiring skills that contribute to the
business's competitive advantage on a continual basis. Innovation is the
driving force in today's regional and global economies. Statewide, New Jersey's taxpayers are going to tolerate covering Camden's annual $80 million budget deficit for only so long. In fact, it was the Recovery Act promise to eradicate the state subsidy for Camden that convinced representatives from one end of the state to the other to sign on, awarding $175 million in aid to help the city to get its act together in the process. Not only has the budget deficit not been eradicated, but this year it is at its highest level ever. However, around the globe, hundreds of thousands of highly skilled, educated and entrepreneurial men and women would love the chance to partake in the American Dream, even in places like Camden, if only a special visa were created that invited them and offered them a chance. -CAMDEN LAND AND DREAM 3/26/06 Is there a market for brick row-homes? Home buyers are willing to pay 3 x the amount of money per suburban sq. ft to live in high density brick row architecture. People reveal their preferences in design by the price they are willing to pay. Design facilitates the type of activity on the street. Unlike business and amusement properties, residences are in use around the clock, seven days per week. Business's spring up to service neighborhoods based on the cumulative preferences of the population. Putting in businesses before there is a population is putting the cart before the horse. Put in the high density, charming, porchless brick row-homes and townhouses urban dwellers prefer. The appropriate economic activity will present itself. Camden already has a distinct competitive advantage over the suburbs. It is one subway stop from one of America's most charming, clean, culturally abundant, commercially dynamic city centers; historic Philadelphia. Regional Real Estate Comparisons 3/12/06 Redevelopment is the future of development in New Jersey, in part because the state is running out of developable land. Experts estimate that at the current pace of development and preservation, the state will be the first to reach full build-out in 20 to 40 years. Redevelopment maximizes investments, both public and private, already made in communities. It restores choices in housing and for moving around that aren't available in new, automobile-dependent developments. But redevelopment is also reshaping New Jersey because the market demands it. 3/04/06 CAMDEN LAND and DREAM: Personal Responsibility, Self-Reliance and Organic, Market Oriented Renewal vs. Government Administered Subsidized Personal Support for distressed urban populations are two different roads addressing urban problems, albeit one road is a dead end, requires constant maintenance and charges starkly higher tolls to taxpayers than the other. 2/27/06 CAMDEN LAND and DREAM: Why is "Regionalism" and the expansion of social contacts for the people of Camden important? How did you find your last job? 85% of all people, across the educational and professional spectrum, report they found their job through a friend or relative. If all or most of your friends and relatives live and work in Camden, what kind of job and pay rate are you likely to acquire? "In today's competitive job market, we rely on insider information and connections to identify the best jobs and make the best match. On the flip side, employers trust the opinions of their most successful employees and value their recommendations for new hires." - University of Massachusetts Alumni Magazine 2/27/06 How to Start Your Own Youth
Development Micro-Program - Rutgers
University "People
always have the government they deserve." Creativity
is one important civic responsibility among
many. |
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY CAMDEN COLLEGE OF ARTS
AND SCIENCES PROGRAM IN URBAN STUDIES
AND METROPOLITAN PLANNING INTRODUCTORY
COURSE SYLLABUS
4 RUTGERS CAMDEN UNIVERSITY RECOMMENDED READINGS
1.Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and
the Moral Life of the
Inner City: Books: Elijah
Anderson
2. Buzz Bissinger, A Prayer for the City
3. Jonathan Barnett, The Fractured Metropolis
4. Annie E. Casey Foundation, "A Path Forward For Camden New Jersey: Situation Analysis" (2001). Available on the internet at: http://www.aecf.org/publications/pdfs/camdenrpt.pdf
City Journal
A quarterly magazine created to
communicate to a broad and influential audience
innovative ideas about restoring the quality of life to America's cities
Feb.12 U.S. Tech Firms, Citing 'Brain Drain,' Push to Hire More Skilled H1b Foreigners
"Stopping suburban
sprawl can only work if at the same time development is redirected back
into existing urban areas."
Here are numerous contacts
that will help people learn about Camden's revitalization and play a
role in it.
-Dorothy Erskine
A Living Mind Is A Place Of Struggle
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From
Camden Ground Zero: Phil Cohen
Comments February 19, 2006, "...in a town once famous for manufacturing household items used everyday, from soap to television sets, the main “industry” for far too many is poverty, crime, and social dysfunction, and the bureaucracy that services it." ...We in Camden have as much right to Not In My Back Yard when it comes to homeless shelters, half-way houses for paroled criminals, and drug clinics…. If anything, we in Camden perhaps have a greater claim, because Camden has been pulling the rest of the county’s weight for the maintenance of the dysfunctional for far too many years. Why is it, then that when the “social service industry” is so quick to defend their constituency/clients/customer base, so little is done to defend or promote the interest of the homeowner or business-person? "The
absolutely LAST thing Camden needs is more low-income housing. This town
will never come back as long as it becomes the dumping ground for
South Jersey's poor. Camden CANNOT be the host for more half-way houses,
homeless shelters, or facilities of any kind to warehouse what
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2/27/06 "Race
and Space" by John
a. Powell "A
poor and racially segregated urban core harms the reputation of the
metropolitan region as a whole and makes it less inviting to
international, national and local businesses as well as families looking
for homes. But White suburbanites have traditionally resisted claims
like these that tie them to the inner city. The justification for this
resistance changes over time. The current justification is that the
“culture of poverty” found in the inner cities will infiltrate
protected suburban enclaves — a justification that is simply a new
name for a long-standing racism directed toward the central cities.
White segregationism, or resistance to
regionalism, manifests itself in support of in-place strategies. Such
strategies attempt to move resources and opportunities to low-income
central city residents, and to generate improvements in urban
neighborhoods of color, as opposed to mobility-oriented schemes, which
aim to disperse central city residents to existing opportunities."
2/23/06 ?"...the salvation of Camden can not be laid at the feet of speculative real estate developers. The State of New Jersey is not blameless for a region in such long-term and shameless neglect. The poor who strive to live good lives amidst lawlessness are citizens of a state that has abandoned them with little conscience or concern." From the blog WiredNY.
2/23/06 ?"Around the country, urban planners have seized on the realization that waterfront land offers the greatest potential for economic revitalization. Through millions of dollars in public subsidies and tax incentives, cities have made great strides trying to duplicate the success of the Inner Harbor in Baltimore or the Riverwalk in San Antonio. Now Camden-its waterfront virtually in downtown Philadelphia - the state's poorest city, so depleted in resources and spirit that headline writers long ago grew weary of grasping at adjectives to describe its deprivations - is poised to reach for its golden ring with the help of the state and private industry." From Wired N.Y.
The revival and recovery of Italy's great cities after the barbaric Dark
Ages was a result of building defensible gated communities as protection
against criminal and anti-social elements. In time the barriers came
down.
2/ 4/06 Oil Prices Increase "Sprawl removes opportunity from urban ghettoes and leaves concentrated poverty in its wake. Sprawl is driving the racial and economic segregation of Urban America." Gamaliel Foundation
Camden's
most valuable and neglected assets: PATCO Stations 
The
great poems of heaven have already
been written. But what of the earth? See your old place in new ways;
ascending, asserting, extending, becoming, being..
Sprawl
Manifesto
Brookings Institute: 12
steps to revitalizing downtown
Close
the gap by teaching social skills
WHY NOW? Hip and Homey Hip, Historic and Homey, and only One Mile From Camden
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Something to consider in Boston: "The city boasts of its efforts to ensure that subsidized units -- both public housing and privately owned units -- stay that way in perpetuity. This sounds like a noble goal but ignores the possibility that subsidized housing might block construction of a higher and better use, one which will generate jobs and property taxes that would benefit far more people."
Camden
New Jersey
The
city allows us to be a part of something larger than ourselves; by
contrast the suburb reminds us of how alone
we really are.
View Of Philadelphia From Camden Waterfront Attractions 
To really appreciate Camden's location assets,
take this photo tour of neighborhoods and
towns surrounding Camden.
Photo of Collingswood. A good neighbor.
Creativity
is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected
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Camden 2015: Comprehensive Courier Post Report
Special Report! Philadelphia Inquirer: Where We Live | Camden
"A
community that does not plan and build the necessary structures for the
common life will remain under a perpetual weight and handicap; its
buildings may tower against the skies, but its actual social stature may
be smaller, measured by effective accomplishment, than a decent country
town." -Lewis
Mumford
I Dream’d in a Dream camdennewjersey.org
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11/12/07
Pioneer educator David Lewis and practitioner receives Athena Medal for
emphasizing architecture's role in "perpetual rebirth of cities".
The Future Of Cities: Leon Krier 11/29
Local knowledge key for small investors in urban areas
Urban Design Terminology
Religious Ethics: New Urbanism
Intro to New Urbanism Campbell's Soup World Headquarters' Controversy Campbell Soup's Dancing Bear "Waiting for Godot" Campbells Soup, City of Camden, NJ, Star in latest production.
Urban Elegance Urban Waterfront Architecture Worldwide
4/11Environmentalists:
Builders writing rules in N.J. 4/11
Camden
to sell $99M in tax liens on 2825 properties
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NJ
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