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Exploring Manhattan, Kansas’ Growth and Preservation Challenges
I discussed Manhattan, Kansas, briefly last year in a post about my travels in 2024. Now, almost a year later, after completing the community’s preservation plan, there’s more to share. At least some more pictures. And, an issue emerging in many communities these days: addressing the housing affordability crisis while balancing the preservation of historic Read more
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One City’s Castle – The Army and Navy General Hospital of Hot Springs, Arkansas
Just around the time of last Christmas, I wrote about my travels to Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a preservation planning assignment. I mentioned the Army and Navy General Hospital in that blog post – a prominent landmark building worthy of further discussion. After visiting Hot Springs again this past February, I had the opportunity to Read more
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Soulard, the “Little Apple,” and Bathhouse Row – A Year in Pictures 2024
Places change—that is a given. I am fascinated by how they change over time while continuing to tell an ongoing history story. These are places that are well cared for and curated. Fortunately, my travels in 2024 have taken me to incredible places that do just that. Before I get to the pictures, this past Read more
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Flaneuring – Main Street and Basketball Memories in Lebanon, Indiana
Once a Main Streeter, always a Main Streeter. Main Street is in my blood. I say that because I started my professional career as a Main Street manager years ago, in another life as they say. I served as a Main Street in Ottawa, Illinois, a small town of just under 19,000 in population located Read more
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Flaneuring – Exploring Cleveland’s Iconic Bridges Along the Cuyahoga River
“What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.” – Santiago Calatrava Bridges have always facinated me. They’re engineering and art rolled up into one bare and essential structure meant to transport us from one place to another. And who knows more about Read more
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Readings – Transforming Places with Adaptive Use
The discussion on adaptive use in the mainstream media has been gaining ground in recent years. There is not a week that goes by when there is a report on a signature building somewhere being resurrected from the doldrums of vacancy and neglect into something dramatically new and regenerative. A case in point – the Read more
Writings
The Places of Sense Chronicles 