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2015 explorer finds different Charlotte than Lawson’s 1701 journey | PlanCharlotte.org
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Skip to main content. UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. 2015 explorer finds different Charlotte than Lawson’s 1701 journey. Jun 18, 2015. At least when explorer John Lawson came through here in 1701 it was winter. Scott Huler, a Raleigh-based writer, is retracing Lawson’s route from Charleston, S.C., to Pamlico Sound, N.C., and Tuesday he hiked from Charlotte to Concord. Is to encounter the terrain with something like fresh eyes. We 20th- and 21st-century Charlotteans and Carolinians may marvel at changes w...
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Dreams for blank walls | PlanCharlotte.org
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Skip to main content. UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. Readers invited to nominate places for urban makeovers. Dreams for blank walls. Oct 15, 2014. PlanCharlotte.org is asking readers to nominate spots in the Charlotte region that need a design makeover. (See our first installment in this series here. Urban designers Keihly Moore and Alex Borisenko have launched a website, www.completeblocks.com, where they’re proposing a series of urban design retrofits, many of them nominated by readers. Aug 31, 2016.
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Get involved | PlanCharlotte.org
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Skip to main content. UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. This page from PlanCharlotte offers readers articles about opportunities they can get involved in their communities: conferences, public forums, workshops and more. TreesCharlotte summit focuses on city tree canopy. Aug 31, 2016. Concerned about Charlotte’s tree canopy? The UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and the nonprofit TreesCharlotte are sponsoring an Urban Forestry Summit on Sept. 20. The event is free and open to the public. Symposium takes a look.
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Mapping Charlotte in your mind | PlanCharlotte.org
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Skip to main content. UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. Mapping Charlotte in your mind. Jul 21, 2015. Each of us has a different image in our minds of what constitutes a place. Is it the road network? One UNC Charlotte geography professor has been asking students on the first day of class to draw a map of Charlotte. He doesn't tell them what type of map, or even what constitutes Charlotte the city itself, greater Mecklenburg County, or the entire metro region. Some students focus on the suburbs, while other...
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Issues | PlanCharlotte.org
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Charlotte arts districts face challenges, study finds | PlanCharlotte.org
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Skip to main content. UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. Charlotte arts districts face challenges, study finds. Jun 09, 2015. Since the 1990s, the NoDa neighborhood surrounding North Davidson and 36. Streets in Charlotte has been branded as the city’s arts district. But in recent years the galleries that once clustered there have dwindled. Is NoDa still an arts district? Or has South End, along South Boulevard near uptown, overtaken it? Do they have factors in common? PlanCharlotte.org’s Mary Newsom. First, ...
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Jackson: Sprawling cities, towns may be killing us | PlanCharlotte.org
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Skip to main content. UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. Jackson: Sprawling cities, towns may be killing us. Apr 09, 2015. Richard Jackson thinks it’s time to stop blaming individuals for the U.S. obesity problem. The problem, he believes, is far more systemic, including the automobile-centric design of modern American life and the ready availability of high-sugar and high-fat foods. He thinks today’s parental fears of child abductions are not realistic and hurt children’s need for outdoor play. When he was ...
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Opinion | PlanCharlotte.org
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Skip to main content. UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. The PlanCharlotte.org Opinion page is open to a wide range of views. Opinion pieces are labeled as commentary and are the opinions of the writers, not necessarily those of PlanCharlotte.org, the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute or the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A PlanCharlotte link to another website does not mean we or the university endorse the opinions expressed or take any responsibility for content on outside websites. Jul 25, 2016.
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Ever wondered ... are there secret creeks in uptown Charlotte? | PlanCharlotte.org
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Skip to main content. UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. Ever wondered . are there secret creeks in uptown Charlotte? May 13, 2015. Mecklenburg’s 3,000 miles of creeks run through every part of the county. This includes uptown Charlotte, although such an urbanized spot of land might be the last place you would expect to find creeks. For a large, high-resolution version of the 1877 map, see below or click here for a link to it. At the UNC Chapel Hill library. Today, our modern storm water control infrastructu...
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The Naked City Blog: May 2014
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The Naked City Blog. Exploring life in the city – Charlotte – and the greater metro region. Looking at urban design, transportation, growth, the built environment and more. Mary Newsom is a lifelong journalist and observer of city life in the Charlotte region and beyond, with a focus on urban design, sustainable development, growth and city planning. She is associate director of urban and regional affairs at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. Whats been keeping me busy? There was an error in this gadget.
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