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Life Without Parking Meters: Savannah
Another city is discovering how an urban retail district can come back to life with user friendly on-street parking. Why not Jacksonville?
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Learning from Raleigh, NC
Known as the City of Oaks , Raleigh is the second largest city in North Carolina and one of the most rapidly growing cities in the country. Raleigh's 2003 Livable Streets Downtown Plan provides a startling contrast when compared to some of our most recent developments.
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Learning from Fort Wayne, IN
Indiana's second largest city is one that is routinely overlooked in the Midwest. However, unlike most Rustbelt manufacturing cities, Fort Wayne has seen steady growth as it has diversified its economy.
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Learning from Fort Lauderdale
Known as the 'Venice of America', Fort Lauderdale serves as the major urban core area for Florida's second largest County.
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Elements of Urbanism: San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, which is the 42nd-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, is the most important seaport, manufacturing, financial, cultural, and tourism center of the island of Puerto Rico.
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Learning from Toledo, OH
Can Jacksonville learn something from the Rust Belt's Glass City: Toledo, OH?
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Historic Downtown Fernandina Beach
Fernandina Beach is a small victorian seaport village, located along the Amelia River in Nassau County, just North of Jacksonville.
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Urban Sports: St Petersburg
Since the Tampa Bay Rays' inagural season in 1998, baseball on the Gulf Coast hasn't exactly been a big draw. Tampa Bay hasn't been all that good, and the dungeon that they play in (Tropicana Field) doesn't really inspire a day at the ballpark. Today, MetroJacksonville takes a look at the Tampa Bay...
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Elements of Urbanism: Portland
Portland was founded along the banks of Oregan's Willamette River and quickly grew as a port city. In 1979, the city adopted an urban growth boundary. Since that time, a city that was more spread out than Jacksonville in 1950 is twice as dense than Jax today.
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Learning from Greenville, SC
According to Ron Barton, Executive Director of the JEDC, Jacksonville's focus for downtown revitalization has shifted to horizontal development. Greenville, SC is an example of a community that has been successful using horizontal public improvements to stimulate vertical private development.
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