Making it Work for Your City: Unleashing the Power and Potential of Historic Fabric

Meeks, Stephanie; Murphy, Kevin C.

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Stephanie Meeks &
Kevin C. Murphy

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Abstract

We’ve known for three decades how to make livable cities—after forgetting for four,” wrote Jeff Speck in Walkable City, “yet we’ve somehow not been able to pull it off.” Jane Jacobs’s arguments have long won over urban planners at this point, Speck noted, but “the planners have yet to win over the city. . . . In the small and midsized cities, where most Americans spend their lives, the daily decisions of local officials are still, more often than not, making their lives worse.”

How can you lose?

The lights are much brighter there

You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

So go downtown

Things will be great when you’re downtown

No finer place for sure, downtown

Everything’s waiting for you

—Petula Clark

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Notes

1.
Petula Clark and Tony Hatch, Downtown, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1965.
2.
Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (New York: Northpoint Press, 2012), 3.
3.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Learning from Los Angeles,” October 2013, http://forum.savingplaces.org/connect/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=41dc24dd-bef7-404a-97d3-480cbfa4a871
4.
Jane Jacobs, “Downtown Is for People,” Fortune, 1958; reprinted by Nin-Hai Tseng, Fortune Magazine, September 18, 2011, http://fortune.com/2011/09/18/downtown-is-for-people-fortune-classic-1958/.
5.
Ellie Violet Bramley, “Is Jan Gehl Winning His Battle to Make Our Cities Livable?,” Guardian, December 8, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/08/jan-gehl-make-cities-liveable-urban-rethinker. Gehl Architects, “Our Story,” http://gehlarchitects.com/story/.
6.
Bramley, “Is Jan Gehl Winning.” Gehl Architects, “Our Story.”
7.
Jan Gehl, Life between Buildings (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2011), 14, 22.
8.
Speck, Walkable City, 8.
9.
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better: Measuring How the Character of Buildings and Blocks Influences Urban Vitality, May 2014, http://forum.savingplaces.org/act/pgl/older-smaller-better.
10.
Stephanie K. Meeks, “Step Boldly and Bring the Past Forward,” National Preservation Conference, Savannah, Georgia, November 12, 2014, http://forum.savingplaces.org/blogs/forum-online/2014/11/12/step-forward-boldly-and-bring-the-past-forward
11.
Ibid.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Ibid. David J. Barboza, “SurveyLA Training Preps Group 4 Survey Teams,”SurveyLA Blog, May 8, 2012, https://surveyla.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/surveyla-training-preps-group-4-survey-teams/. SurveyLA, “Why a City-Wide Survey?,” http://preservation.lacity.org/survey/why. SurveyLA, “Project Description,” http://preservation.lacity.org/survey/description.
14.
SurveyLA, “SurveyLA Facts,” http://preservation.lacity.org/files/04%20MyHistoricLA%20SurveyLA%20Facts_0.pdf.
15.
James Fink, “Hundreds of Buffalo Buildings May Qualify for Incentives,” Buffalo Business First, April 4, 2014, http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2014/04/14/hundreds-of-buffalo-buildings-may-qualify-for.html. “Buffalo Property Eligibility for Historic Tax Credit Incentives,” Buffalo News, http://data.buffalonews.com/databuff/government/buffalo-property-eligibility-historic-tax-credits-incentives/.
16.
Civil War Trust, “Wal-Mart Controversy Finally Resolved,” Hallowed Ground, Spring 2014, http://www.civilwar.org/hallowed-ground-magazine/spring-2014/walmart-controversy-fully.html.
17.
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 93–94.
18.
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens after They’re Built (New York: Penguin, 1994), 73. Francisco J. Matta-Bermudez, “From Hammurabi to the International Building Code: A Brief History of Construction Law and Regulation,” Construction Law Depot, September 22, 2013, https://constructionlawdepot.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/833/.
19.
Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives through Urban Design (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 283. Sonia Hirt, Zoned in the U.S.A.: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015), 3–5.
20.
Kevin C. Murphy, “Uphill All the Way: The Fortunes of Progressivism, 1920–1929,” February 2013, http://www.kevincmurphy.com/uatw-1924-schism.html. “No Way Out: Two New York City Firemen Testify about the 1911 Shirtwaist Fire,” History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/57/.
21.
Robert R. Weyeneth, “Ancestral Architecture: The Early Preservation Movement in Charleston,” in Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation, ed. Max Page and Randall Mason (New York: Routledge, 2004), 257–78.
22.
Ibid.
23.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Learning from Los Angeles,” 24.
24.
Hirt, Zoned in the U.S.A., 5–8.
25.
Speck, Walkable City, 106.
26.
Ibid., 24, 32–34. “Building on Baltimore’s History,” 79–80. Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 93–94.
27.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Learning from Los Angeles,” 24, 32–34. “Building on Baltimore’s History,” 49.
28.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Building on Baltimore’s History,” 49–50, 79–80. Natalie Sherman, “Groups Pressure City Council on New Zoning Code,” Baltimore Sun, August 21, 2015, http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-baltimore-zoning-20150820-story.html.
29.
California Office of Historic Preservation, “State Historic Building Code,” http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21410.
30.
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 92–94. Montgomery, Happy City, 283. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, “Form-Based Codes: A Step-by-Step Guide for Communities,” November 2013, http://formbasedcodes.org/content/uploads/2013/11/CMAP-GuideforCommunities.pdf.
31.
US Government Accountability Office, “Key Issues—Food Safety,” http://www.gao.gov/key_issues/food_safety/issue_summary.
32.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Learning from Los Angeles,” 24, 32–34. Partnership for Building Reuse, “Retrofitting Philadelphia,” September 2014, http://forum.savingplaces.org/connect/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=981d6c61-aefb-4a18-a34b-c6098a82b178.
33.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Vintage Books, 1961), 190. Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 93–94.
34.
Rebecca Lubens and Julia Miller, “Protecting Older Neighborhoods through Conservation District Programs,” Preservation Law Reporter, January–March 2002/2003, http://forum.savingplaces.org/connect/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=fb188e94-8dba-4717-9476-c62cf17c4314. Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 92–94. Jay Walljasper, “9 Lessons We Can Learn from Seattle,” Minneapolis Post, June 5, 2014, https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2014/06/9-lessons-we-can-learn-seattle. City of Dallas, “Current Planning: Conservation Districts,” http://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopment/planning/Pages/Conservation-Districts.aspx.
35.
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 92–94.
36.
Brand, How Buildings Learn, 17–20.
37.
Ibid., 57–61.
38.
Speck, Walkable City, 141. Murphy, “Uphill All the Way,” http://www.kevincmurphy.com/uatw-culture-distracted.html. Max Fisher, “It’s Official: Western Europeans Have More Cars Per Person Than Americans,” Atlantic, August 14, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its-official-western-europeans-have-more-cars-per-person-than-americans/261108/.
39.
Emily Badger, “The Myth of the American Love Affair with Cars,” Washington Post, January 27, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/27/debunking-the-myth-of-the-american-love-affair-with-cars/. Montgomery, Happy City, 186.
40.
Speck, Walkable City, 78, 141. Badger, “The Myth of the American Love Affair with Cars.” James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape (New York: Touchstone, 1993), 87–92.
41.
Kunstler, Geography of Nowhere, 86. Badger, “The Myth of the American Love Affair with Cars.” Murphy, “Uphill All the Way”. Speck, Walkable City, 142.
42.
Speck, Walkable City, 90–91. Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead (New York: First Vintage Books, 2004), 74–76.
43.
Kunstler, Geography of Nowhere, 99–100. Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (New York: Vintage, 1974), 903–4.
44.
Anthony Flint, Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City (New York: Random House, 2009), 191–92. Caro, The Power Broker, 834, 903–4, 916–17. Kunstler, Geography of Nowhere, 100.
45.
Speck, Walkable City, 80–82.
46.
Ibid., 80, 89, 97.
47.
Ibid., 91–92. Angie Schmitt, “Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous,” Greater Greater Washington, May 29, 2015, http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/26921/wider-lanes-make-city-streets-more-dangerous/. Jeff Speck, “Why 12-Foot Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety and Must Be Replaced Now,” CityLab, October 6, 2014, http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/10/why-12-foot-traffic-lanes-are-disastrous-for-safety-and-must-be-replaced-now/381117/.
48.
Gehl, Life between Buildings, 34–37. Montgomery, Happy City, 168–70.
49.
Peter Simek, “What Other Cities Learned,” D Magazine, May 2014, http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/may/what-other-cities-learned-tearing-down-highways. Speck, Walkable City, 94–95.
50.
Simek, “What Other Cities Learned.”
51.
C. J. Hughes, “A Plan in New Haven to Right a Highway’s Wrong,” New York Times, July 18, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/realestate/commercial/a-plan-in-new-haven-to-right-a-highways-wrong.html. Rachel Sadon, “Five Things to Know about the Capitol Crossing Project,” DCist, May 12, 2015, http://dcist.com/2015/05/x_things_to_know_about_capitol_cros.php. Bridget Bowman, “D.C. Officials Break Ground on Capitol Crossing,” Roll Call, May 12, 2015, http://www.rollcall.com/hill-blotter/d-c-officials-break-ground-on-capitol-crossing/.
52.
Justine Hofherr, “Can We Talk Rationally about the Big Dig Yet?,” Boston Globe, January 5, 2015, http://www.boston.com/cars/news-and-reviews/2015/01/05/can-talk-rationally-about-the-big-dig-yet/0BPodDnlbNtsTEPFFc4i1O/story.html.
53.
David Roberts, “Seattle’s Unbelievable Transportation Megaproject Fustercluck,” Grist, June 5, 2015, http://grist.org/cities/seattles-unbelievable-transportation-megaproject-fustercluck/. Speck, Walkable City, 95–96. David Z. Morris, “Seattle’s Massive(ly Troubled) Tunnel Drill Is About to Restart,” Fortune, December 3, 2015, http://fortune.com/2015/12/03/seattle-tunnel-drill-restarting/.
54.
David Dunlap, “No Vehicles—But Plenty of People on Broadway,” New York Times, May 24, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/nyregion/25bway.html. Laura Stampler, “This Map Shows the Most Popular Attractions in Every State,” Time, March 28, 2014, http://time.com/42038/map-popular-attractions-united-states/. Montgomery, Happy City, 223–24. Jan Gehl, Jeff Risom, and Julia Day, “Times Square: The Naked Truth,” New York Times, August 31, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/opinion/times-square-the-naked-truth.html.
55.
Smart Growth America National Complete Streets Coalition, “Fundamentals,” http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/complete-streets/complete-streets-fundamentals. Barbara McCann, Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013), 9.
56.
Speck, Walkable City, 98–99. Jenn Stanley, “Closing Streets to Cars for Walkers and Bicyclists Is Getting More Popular by the Minute,” Next City, June 19, 2015, https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/san-jose-street-event-new-york-central-park-closed-to-cars.
57.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Retrofitting Philadelphia,” 18.
58.
Richard Willson, Parking Reform Made Easy (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013), 2. Speck, Walkable City, 116–17. Michael Kimmelman, “Paved but Still Alive,” New York Times, January 8, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/arts/design/taking-parking-lots-seriously-as-public-spaces.html.
59.
Speck, Walkable City, 118–20, 129. Willson, Parking Reform Made Easy, 2.
60.
Speck, Walkable City, 118–20, 129.
61.
Willson, Parking Reform Made Easy, xvii.
62.
Speck, Walkable City, 122–23. Brian Meyer, “Plenty of Space to Park: Lobbying Group Blames Planning for Excessive Lots,” Buffalo News, July 21, 2013, https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22574066.html. Kimmelman, “Paved but Still Alive.”
63.
Speck, Walkable City, 124, 121. Kimmelman, “Paved but Still Alive.”
64.
Willson, Parking Reform Made Easy, xviii.
65.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Building on Baltimore’s History,” 49–50. Montgomery, Happy City, 170.
66.
Gehl, Life between Buildings, 31–33. Montgomery, Happy City, 161.
67.
Montgomery, Happy City, 161.
68.
Ibid., 162–63.
69.
Speck, Walkable City, 37–39.
70.
Montgomery, Happy City, 7. Speck, Walkable City, 142–43.
71.
Montgomery, Happy City, 262–63. Joseph Minicozzi, “The Smart Math of Mixed-Use Development,” Planetizen, January 23, 2012, http://www.planetizen.com/node/53922.
72.
Montgomery, Happy City, 262–63. Minicozzi, “The Smart Math.”
73.
Montgomery, Happy City, 262–63. Minicozzi, “The Smart Math.”
74.
Minicozzi, “The Smart Math.”
75.
Main Street America, “National Main Street Center,” http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/.
76.
Main Street America, “History of the National Main Street Center,” http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/about-main-street/the-center/history.html.
77.
Ibid.
78.
Ibid.
79.
Ibid.
80.
Ibid.
81.
Main Street America, “National Main Street Center.”
82.
Main Street America, “The Main Street Approach,” http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/about-main-street/main-street-america/the-main-street-approach.html.
83.
Ibid.
84.
Main Street America, “Manassas, Virginia,” http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/awards/gamsa/2003/manassas-virginia.html.
85.
Main Street America, “Frederick, Maryland,” http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/awards/gamsa/2005/frederick-maryland.html.
86.
Ibid.
87.
Ibid.
88.
Main Street America, “Rawlins DDA/Main Street, Wyoming,” http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/awards/gamsa/2015/rawlins.html. “Rawlins Chosen as Semi-Finalist for National Main Street Award,” County10, October 18, 2014, http://archive.county10.com/2014/10/18/rawlins-chosen-semifinalist-national-main-street-award/.
89.
Main Street America, “Rawlins DDA.” “Rawlins Chosen as Semi-Finalist.”
90.
Main Street America, “Rawlins DDA.” “Rawlins Chosen as Semi-Finalist.”
91.
Place Economics and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, “The Federal Historic Tax Credit: Transforming Communities,” June 2014, 3–6.
92.
Ibid.
93.
Ibid.
94.
Ibid.
95.
Ibid.
96.
Ibid. Stephanie Meeks, “Urban CPR: Community, Preservation, Resurgence,” Detroit Economic Club, May 19, 2014, https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/urban-cpr-community-preservation-resurgence
97.
Stephanie Meeks, “Older Buildings, Livable Cities,” Grain Exchange, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 19, 2015, http://forum.savingplaces.org/blogs/forum-online/2015/03/20/meeks-older-buildings-livable-cities
98.
Ibid. Meeks, “Urban CPR.” Partnership for Building Reuse, “Building on Baltimore’s History,” 14.
99.
“National Trust Community Investment Corporation,” http://ntcic.webfactional.com/.
100.
Meeks, “Urban CPR.” National Trust for Historic Preservation, “Protect Historic Tax Credits,” http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/advocacy-center/policy-resources/historic-tax-credits.html.
101.
Meeks, “Urban CPR.”
102.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Building on Baltimore’s History,” 14, 61.
103.
Ibid. Partnership for Building Reuse, “Retrofitting Philadelphia,” 10–11, 23. City of Philadelphia Office of Property Assessment, “Homestead Exemption,” http://www.phila.gov/OPA/AbatementsExemptions/Pages/Homestead.aspx.
104.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Building on Baltimore’s History,” 61. City of Phoenix, “Historic Preservation Incentive Programs,” https://www.phoenix.gov/pdd/historic/historicincentives. City of Boulder, “In-centives for Historic Preservation,” https://bouldercolorado.gov/historic-preservation/incentives-for-historic-preservation.
105.
Jonathan D. Epstein, “Renovation Projects Bring Back Character of Buffalo’s Historic Buildings,” Buffalo News, April 19, 2014, http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/development/renovation-projects-bring-back-character-of-buffalos-historic-buildings-20140419.
106.
Partnership for Building Reuse, “Building on Baltimore’s History,” 61. Evan Thompson, “What Is So Magical about the Abandoned Buildings Revitalization Act?,” Charleston City Paper, January 29, 2014, http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/what-is-so-magical-about-the-abandoned-building-revitalization-act/Content?oid=4853196.
107.
South Carolina Association for Community and Economic Development, “South Carolina Community Development Tax Credit,” http://www.communitydevelopmentsc.org/CD-Tax-Credits.html. Massachusetts Office of Housing and Economic Development, “Community Investment Tax Credit Program (CITC),” http://www.mass.gov/hed/community/funding/community-investment-tax-credit-program.html. Indiana Economic Development Corporation, “Community Revitalization Enhance-ment District Tax Credit,” http://iedc.in.gov/assets/files/Docs/2015%20downloads/CReEd_01-15.pdf. New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, “Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program,” http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/dhcr/offices/nrtc.html. Melissa Jest, “Community Development Corporations Embrace Historic Rehabs,” Preservation Forum Journal 29, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 31–39.
108.
ReNewSA, http://www.renewsa.com/About.aspx. City of San Antonio, “Funding Sources,” http://www.sanantonio.gov/GMA/About/FundingSource.aspx. Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 92–94.
109.
J. Myrick Howard, Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). National Trust for Historic Preservation, “The Importance of Preservation Revolving Funds,” http://forum.savingplaces.org/connect/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=77c915a8-a6b5-4966-94d0-2254721e29af
110.
Winslow Hastie and April Wood, “The Evolving Revolving Fund: Historic Charleston Foundation Revamps Its Pioneering Program,” Preservation Forum Journal 29, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 10–12.
111.
Ibid. Howard, Buying Time for Heritage. “SCAD Measures Revolving Fund Impacts,” Preservation Forum Journal 29, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 40–41, http://forum.savingplaces.org/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=a80aa93f-9424-4d79-65f3-dd7ed6efe032
112.
Stephanie Meeks, “Step Forward Boldly and Bring the Past Forward,” Savannah, Georgia, November 12, 2014, http://blog.preservationleadershipforum.org/2014/11/12/2014-pastforward-stephanie-meeks-keynote-address/. Nicole Motter, “Why Program-Related Investments Are Not Risky Business,” Forbes, February 21, 2013, http://forum.savingplaces.org/blogs/forum-online/2014/11/12/step-forward-boldly-and-bring-the-past-forward
113.
Meeks, “Step Forward Boldly.” Ethiel Garlington, “Program-Related Investments: ‘Groan’ for Preservation,” November 24, 2014, http://forum.savingplaces.org/blogs/forum-online/2014/11/24/program-related-investments-groan-for-preservation.
114.
Meeks, “Step Forward Boldly.” Garlington, “Program-Related Investments.”
115.
Meeks, “Step Forward Boldly.” Garlington, “Program-Related Investments.”
116.
Meeks, “Step Forward Boldly.” Garlington, “Program-Related Investments.”
117.
Meeks, “Step Forward Boldly.” Garlington, “Program-Related Investments.”
118.
Meeks, “Step Forward Boldly.” Garlington, “Program-Related Investments.”
119.
City of San Antonio, “About the Vacant Building Registration Pilot Program,” http://www.sanantonio.gov/VacantBuilding/About.aspx. Preser-vation Green Lab, “The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse,” January 2012, http://www.preservationnation.org/information-center/sustainable-communities/green-lab/lca/The_Greenest_Building_lowres.pdf.
120.
Tom Mayes, “Changing the Paradigm from Demolition to Reuse—Building Reuse Ordinances,” in Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Preservation, ed. Max Page and Marla Miller (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016).
121.
Isaac Kremer, “How Tactical Urbanism Can Help Build a #BetterMain Street,” Main Street Story of the Week, August 7, 2014, http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/main-street-news/story-of-the-week/2014-/how-tactical-urbanism-can.html.
122.
Ibid. Nate Berg, “The Official Guide to Tactical Urbanism,” CityLab, March 3, 2012, http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/03/guide-tactical-urbanism/1387/.
123.
Berg, “The Official Guide.”
124.
Laura Mills Simpson, “Pop-Up Art,” Main Street Story of the Week, October 2, 2015, http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/main-street-news/story-of-the-week/2015/pop-up-art-tour.html.
125.
David Weible, “7 Tips for Creating a Preservation Pop-Up Shop,” Preservation Nation, https://savingplaces.org/stories/preservation-tips-tools-7-tips-creating-preservation-pop-shop. Marisa Holden, “Friday Find: ‘Pop-Up’ Preservation!” Nantucket Preservation Trust, October 24, 2014, https://www.nantucketpreservation.org/friday-find-pop-up-preservation-3598. Kremer, “How Tactical Urbanism Can Help Build a #BetterMain Street.”
126.
Stephanie Meeks, “Older Buildings, Livable Cities—Denver,” Economic Club of Colorado, October 27, 2015. Blair Shiff, “Denver Is One of the Fastest Growing Economies in the U.S.,” KUSA, September 29, 2015, http://www.9news.com/story/money/2015/09/29/fast-growing-large-cities/73019934/. Ana Campoy and Dan Frosch, “Denver Job Market Lures Millennials,” Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/denver-job-market-lures-millennials-1437698907. Adazeh Ansari, “The Fittest Cities in the U.S., and Why,” CNN, May 19, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/health/fit-city/.
127.
Judy Mattivi Morley, “Making History: Historic Preservation and Civic Identity in Denver,” in Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation, ed. Max Page and Randall Mason (New York: Routledge, 2004), 284.
128.
Ibid., 283–85. Marik Jaffe, “Denver’s Union Station a 30-Year Barn-Raising,” Denver Post, July 15, 2014, http://www.telegram.com/article/20140715/NEWS/307159745.
129.
Morley, “Making History,” 283–87. Jaffe, “Denver’s Union Station.”
130.
Morley, “Making History,” 283–87. Jaffe, “Denver’s Union Station.”
131.
Morley, “Making History,” 288–93.
132.
Ibid., 294–98. Jaffe, “Denver’s Union Station.”
133.
Morley, “Making History,” 294–98. Meeks, “Older Buildings, Livable Cities—Denver.” Denver Public Library, “LoDo: Denver’s Lower Downtown Success Story,” https://history.denverlibrary.org/lodo-denvers-lower-downtown-success-story.
134.
Meeks, “Older Buildings, Livable Cities—Denver.” Jaffe, “Denver’s Union Station.”
135.
Jaffe, “Denver’s Union Station.” Meeks, “Older Buildings, Livable Cities—Denver.” Morley, “Making History,” 297–98.
136.
Meeks, “Older Buildings, Livable Cities—Denver.”
137.
Ibid.
138.
Kaid Benfield, “A Closer Look at a Smart Growth Icon: Denver’s Highlands’ Garden Village,” NRDC Switchboard, July 20, 2010, https://web.archive.org/web/20150723022413/http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/a_close_look_at_a_smart_growth.html. Jonathan Rose Companies, “Highlands’ Garden Village Mixed-Use and Mixed-Income Community,” http://www.rosecompanies.com/all-projects/highlands-garden-village-mixed-use-and-mixed-income-community.
139.
Jaffe, “Denver’s Union Station.” Jay Walljasper, “6½ Lessons the Twin Cities Can Learn from Denver,” Minneapolis Post, June 4, 2014, https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2014/06/6-lessons-twin-cities-can-learn-denver.
140.
Walljasper, “6½ Lessons.”
141.
History Colorado, “State Historical Fund,” http://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/state-historical-fund. John Murray, “Denver’s $500 ‘Mini-Bonds’ Sell Out in First Hour, Raising $12 Million,” Denver Post, August 4, 2014, http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26272746/denvers-500-mini-bonds-sell-out-first-hour.
142.
History Colorado, “Preservation Tax Credits,” http://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/preservation-tax-credits.
143.
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Meeks, S., Murphy, K.C. (2016). Making it Work for Your City: Unleashing the Power and Potential of Historic Fabric. In: The Past and Future City. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-709-4_4

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