Monday, December 12, 2016

The ever-present dilemma of paying for transit

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The topic of transit – or the lack of it – arose during public hearings on the vast new River District development that won city approval l...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Trees, grass, drought and the future

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Can lush lawns be sustained with future droughts and water supply issues looming? Photo: Mary Newsom Water and our supply of it is ...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Another Independence Boulevard – lost opportunity or potential future?

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Bologna's Independence Boulevard on a Monday morning in October. Photo: Mary Newsom On a recent trip to Italy, we stopped for a nig...
Monday, August 29, 2016

100 years of N.C. state parks, but never one for Mecklenburg

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North Carolina's Mount Mitchell State Park turned 100 this year. Photo: By Two Hearted River - CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedi...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

In 1969 planners imagined Charlotte’s University City. Did their vision come true?

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1969 University City Planning Concepts This is part two of my "I Love Old Maps" series.  In addition to ferreting out that fu...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Charlotte in the '80s

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I love how old maps show what the mapmakers valued.  I recently came across this map of Charlotte circa 1986. (You'll want t...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Do you live in the 'real' Charlotte?

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Plaza Midwood, a neighborhood that is not south of Fairview. Photo: Nancy Pierce Do you live in “the real Charlotte”? I was chatt...