From his Grave in Camden, New Jersey, Walt Whitman's Challenge to New Urbanists.
Talk a 1/2 mile picture walk from the Hi Speed Rail Rand Transportation Center,
to the waterfront. In this aprox. 15 minute walk, you will see New Urbanism's
greatest challenges and opportunities.
A new, 75% narrower street design could hide county jail from sidewalk level
with buildings only four stories high. Next block of Mickle Blvd. west of
Whitman's house is wide open for development all the way to the waterfront.
I dream
I Dream’d in a Dream
I DREAM’D in a dream, I saw a
city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;
I dream’d that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest;
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words. -Walt
Whitman
An Idea for a Dignified Setting, A New Mickle Blvd. in Camden, New Jersey.
Camden Waterfront Attractions + Urban Elegance +
Art's Transformative Power + Existing Transportation + New Urbaninst
and Transportation Oriented Development = A Better Mickle Blvd.
I dream this 
becomes this. 
A new Main Street for the new City of Friends.
Walt
Whitman's History on Mickle Blvd. History
of Mickle Blvd.
Hi Speed Rail Line Connections from Walter
Rand Center at Mickle Blvd. and Broadway
Next to Whitman's Grave, next to CNU tour site Collingswood, a great TOD opportunity
Poems
by Walt Whitman
A New Mickle Blvd.
Photos:
Right: Known as the first use of the Corinthian Order on a building exterior,
the Monument of Lysikrates is the symbol of the Driehaus Prize. Courtesy of
stoa.org
Just Above: DPZ's Riverside development in the Buckhead area of Atlanta is surrounded by suburban office parks and uses diverse building types to blend office, residential, and retail uses on the same streets, at densities (72 units per acre) many times greater than those of adjacent developments (72 units per acre for residential). Image courtesy of DPZ.