Construction
The Business of Urban Renewal
When a company is interested in rebuilding any area of a city, local environmentalists and residents often express concerns about the impact it will have...
READ
Increasing Local Property Values
Many homeowners are concerned when an urban renewal project is announced, and their main worry is that their own property values will fall. Part of...
READ
Creating Economic Growth
The work of redeveloping old urban neighbourhoods is often a necessity, but it usually runs into roadblocks before the project begins. Local residents might want...
READ
New City Homes
Residential buildings are an important part of any city, but finding places to put them can be difficult. Many of the older neighborhoods have zoning...
READ
Recreating Old Neighborhoods
Many areas of cities have fallen by the wayside as people moved to the suburbs and left behind the big cities as centers where a...
READ
Combining Old and New
Urban developers with experience have often found neighbourhood associations are some of their biggest opponents, and they have learned to negotiate directly with them. They...
READ
Reaching for the Sky
Few modern cities have commercial buildings that span acres on the ground, so it would seem each skyscraper is competing for the label of the...
READ