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June 16, 2009 The 25-year-old Riverfront State Prison, on prime real estate along the Camden NJ waterfront, is closed. All the inmates have been relocated. The facility is to be razed to make way for redevelopment projects designed to bring money, housing, and jobs to the city.     Story     Google Earth Riverfront Prison Map     A Friendly Alternative to Eminent Domain  EMMINENT DOMAIN: House Bill   Camden N.J., Zoning and Land Use 

June 30, 2009 NY Times: Atlanta becoming the first major city to knock down all it's Public Housing. "Concentrating poverty is very destructive."

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Christie talked about cities as if he were a Democrat. "In order to grow our economy and improve our state, I will propose a plan to renew our cities," I have come to firmly believe that the only way to improve our state is to improve our cities. We have to do it. It's a moral imperative. It's an economic imperative."
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What does downtown Camden have to offer? Just the all best of Philadelphia, just one modern subway stop away.!!! No Downtown in America has more potential! 
       Google www.camdennewjersey.org            Web     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     City of Camden New Jersey Business Development
       

Now here is a Stimulus Project!  And North and South Central Camden N.J are "Shovel Ready"!  Amsterdam: One Hundred Waterfronts for Camden!  Sidewalks:  opportunities for both democracy and oppression.
 "Inspiration is tamed by rules, and leaders are domesticated by bureaucrats"- Max Weber 
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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 

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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.

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Camden Waterfront Attractions  + Urban Elegance +

Art's Transformative Power     +    Existing Transportation    New Urbaninst 

and Transportation Oriented Development = A Better Mickle Blvd.

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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

12 minutes from Camden's Broadway and Mickle Blvd. HI Speed Rail Station:  CNU tour site: Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square

Next to Whitman's Grave, next to CNU tour site Collingswood, a great TOD opportunity

Walt Whitman Needs Your Help     

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.