Elements of Urbanism: Dayton

[Metro Jacksonville]

Elements of Urbanism: Dayton



Metro Jacksonville takes a look at the downtown of Ohio's fourth largest city: Dayton

Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2009-nov-elements-of-urbanism-dayton

[tpot]

You can update the list of Fortune 500 companies and remove NCR from Dayton.  NCR moved it's World Headquarters to Duluth, GA earlier this year..........

[thelakelander]

Thanks!

[copperfiend]

The streets look pretty empty with the exception of the kids playing in the one picture and the congregation of cross dressers in another.

[thelakelander]

The images were taken on a Saturday afternoon back in June.

[Overstreet]

Dayton is also home to Wight Patterson AFB.  It is home to the AFMC or material command.  It should be listed as a major economic factor.
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/main/welcome.asp

Dayton is also home to the USAF museum.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/

[Hurricane]

It's amazing how multiple aerial electrical wires absolutely make any city look "red neck".  Even if the building's architect is great, the wires are such a distraction that it's hard to notice.  If there is something very ugly on top of something beautiful, you wind up only noticing the ugly...  I can say that this is something that Jacksonville did well - hiding the electrical wires underground.

[heights unknown]

Poor Dayton.  I wonder what happened.  It was once bigger (before consolidation) than Jacksonville.  Anyone know what the industry was or exactly what contributed or helped to reduce Dayton's population?  A lot of similarities between Dayton and Jacksonville.

Heights Unknown

[zoo]

Love the rowhouses in the first two pics of Oregan section. Wish someone would do some of those, with brick (no cheap siding, pls) in Springfield...

[Fallen Buckeye]

I think Dayton used to be big for rubber. Mead Paper used to have a presence too if I remember right. I have a couple family members that live in the suburbs between Dayton and Cincy. I've never spent a whole lot of time there though. Cincinnati is so close that I'd rather be there if I were going to make the drive which was a couple hours for me. For me, Dayton was never anything to write home about.

[thelakelander]

Love the rowhouses in the first two pics of Oregan section. Wish someone would do some of those, with brick (no cheap siding, pls) in Springfield...

Love them too.  Unfortunately, they can't be done without a zoning exception, variance or PUD.  This was the first concept for my project.  When it was apparent that it was not going to be supported, we changed the concept to live/work lofts and found a commercial property were we could argue was within a "transitioning" zone from heavy commercial to residential. 

While we'll never see these in Springfield or Riverside, I would love to see them in areas like Durkeeville, Brooklyn, LaVilla and the Eastside.

[heights unknown]

Real feeble and hungry looking skyline.

Heights Unknown