The Evergreen Tract: Shrinking the City II

The Evergreen Tract, 1910. In April I wrote about urban "rightsizing," and about Project Green, our city's plan to tear down abandoned buildings and replace them with green space. That post generated a robust and thoughtful conversation, one that has motivated me to continue to reflect on and investigate what I believe is a wayward, wasteful and …

Confronted by Insurmountable Opportunity

  Downtown Rochester today, from Google Earth. The Rochester Regional Community Design Center's (RRCDC's) Vision Plan for downtown, 2008. Pogo, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Talk about a city that is shovel-ready - yikes! As a counterweight to the desolation and destruction of downtown, the RRCDC here has created a Vision Plan, a kind of …