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2. Older, Smaller, Better: How Older Buildings Enhance Urban Vitality

verfasst von : Stephanie Meeks, Kevin C. Murphy

Erschienen in: The Past and Future City

Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Abstract

Ever since T he D eath and L ife of G reat American C ities, preservationists have been using Jacobs’s arguments to make the case for retaining historic neighborhoods and older buildings. To be sure, her reasoning feels right, primarily because we all sense that historic places feed our soul and connect us to our past and our community over time.

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Fußnoten
1
James A. Clapp, The City: A Dictionary of Quotable Thought on Cities and Urban Life (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1984), 259.
 
2
Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2010), 29.
 
3
Kenneth Neal Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, “The Rise of Big Data,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2013, https://​www.​foreignaffairs.​com/​articles/​2013-04-03/​rise-big-data. Mike Powe, “Big Data: A New Frontier in Historic Preservation?,” Preservation Leadership Forum, March 4, 2014, http://​forum.​savingplaces.​org/​blogs/​forum-online/​2014/​03/​04/​big-data-a-new-frontier-in-historic-preservation
 
4
For those who are interested, the full Older, Smaller, Better report—available at the Preservation Green Lab and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s websites—goes into much more detail about the Green Lab’s specific methodology. 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 .
 
5
H Street Neighborhood News, “USA Today—H Street Ten Best Neighborhoods to Explore,” February 1, 2012, http://​hstreet.​org/​usa-today-h-street-10-best-neighborhoods-to-explore/​. Maya Rhodan, “Forbes Names H Street Sixth ‘Hippest Hipster’ Neighborhood in America,” Washingtonian, September 21, 2012, http://​www.​washingtonian.​com/​2012/​09/​21/​forbes-names-h-street-6th-hippest-hipster-neighborhood-in-america/​.
 
6
Katie Dennis and Sheryl Poe, “Riots to Revitalization: The Difference on H Street Is Night and Day,” Free Enterprise, November 14, 2013, http://​archive.​freeenterprise.​com/​entrepreneur/​riots-revitalization-difference-h-street-night-and-day. H Street Main Street, http://​hstreet.​org/​h-street/​hsms/​. 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
 
7
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 66–67. Missy Frederick, “Rose’s Luxury Tops Bon Appetit Best Restaurant List,” Washington DC Eater, August 19, 2014, http://​dc.​eater.​com/​2014/​8/​19/​6168979/​roses-luxury-tops-bon-appetit-best-restaurant-list.
 
8
Michael Nelbauer, “National Community Church to Acquire Blue Castle, Expand Barracks Row Portfolio,” Washington Business Journal, November 4, 2014, http://​www.​bizjournals.​com/​washington/​breaking_​ground/​2014/​11/​national-community-church-to-acquire-blue-castle.​html .
 
9
Matthew Yglesias, “Washington D.C.’s Aversion to Skyscrapers Has Turned It into an American Versailles,” de Zeen, June 19, 2015, http://​www.​dezeen.​com/​2015/​06/​19/​washington-dc-height-buildings-act-skyscrapers-inequality-housing-american-versailles/​. Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 57.
 
10
Lydia DePillis, “What Does Ed Glaeser Have against Planning?,” Washington City Paper, February 14, 2011, http://​www.​washingtoncitypa​per.​com/​blogs/​housingcomplex/​2011/​02/​14/​what-does-ed-glaeser-have-against-planning/​.
 
11
Ibid. Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (New York: Northpoint Press, 2012), 220–21.
 
12
Speck, Walkable City, 220–21.
 
13
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 82–84. J. P. Mangalinden, “Suitcase of Body Parts Found a Block from Twitter HQ,” Mashable, January 29, 2015, http://​forum.​savingplaces.​org/​blogs/​forum-online/​2015/​10/​09/​witnessing-how-older-and-smaller-is-better
 
14
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 82–84. Kristina Shevory, “Twitter Helps to Revive a Seedy San Francisco Neighborhood,” New York Times, November 2, 2013, http://​www.​nytimes.​com/​2013/​11/​02/​business/​twitter-helps-revive-a-seedy-san-francisco-neighborhood.​html.
 
15
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 82–84. Kim Mai-Cutler, “How Burrowing Owls Led to Vomiting Anarchists (or the S.F. Housing Crisis Explained),” TechCrunch, April 14, 2014, http://​techcrunch.​com/​2014/​04/​14/​sf-housing/​.
 
16
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 82–84. Mai-Cutler, “How Burrowing Owls.”
 
17
Joe Garofoli, “Twitter Opens $3 Million Tech Skills Center for SF Poor, Homeless,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2015, http://​www.​sfgate.​com/​business/​article/​Twitter-opens-3-million-tech-skills-center-for-6276841.​php.
 
18
Ibid. Heather Somerville, “Four Years after Mid-Market Tax Break, Zendesk Wins Over Community,” Mendocino Beacon Journal, February 21, 2015, http://​www.​mendocinobeacon.​com/​business/​20150221/​four-years-after-mid-market-tax-break-zendesk-wins-over-community.
 
19
Sam Gustin, “Google Buys Giant New York Building for $1.9 Billion,” Wired, December 22, 2010, http://​www.​wired.​com/​2010/​12/​google-nyc/​. Roger Vincent and Andrea Chang, “Google Buys 12 Acres in Playa Vista, Vastly Expands Presence in L.A,” Los Angeles Times, December 3, 2014, http://​www.​latimes.​com/​business/​realestate/​la-fi-playa-property-sale-20141203-story.​html.
 
20
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens after They’re Built (New York: Penguin, 1994), 23–24.
 
21
Talia Avakian, “America’s Most Expensive Cities for Renters,” Business Insider, August 25, 2015, http://​www.​businessinsider.​com/​americas-20-most-expensive-cities-for-renters-2015-8. Mai-Cutler, “How Burrowing Owls.” Derek Thompson, “Why Middle-Class Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Liberal Cities,” Atlantic, October 29, 2014, http://​www.​theatlantic.​com/​business/​archive/​2014/​10/​why-are-liberal-cities-so-unaffordable/​382045/​.
 
22
Mai-Cutler, “How Burrowing Owls.” SPUR and San Francisco Architectural Heritage, “Historic Preservation in San Francisco: Making the Preservation Process Work for Everyone,” July 2013, http://​www.​spur.​org/​sites/​default/​files/​publications_​pdfs/​SPUR_​Historic_​Preservation_​in_​SF.​pdf.
 
23
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 77. SPUR and San Francisco Architectural Heritage, “Historic Preservation in San Francisco.”
 
24
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 38–40. “Amazon Leases Supply Laundry,” Daily Journal of Commerce, June 11, 2014, http://​www.​djc.​com/​news/​re/​12066610.​html.
 
25
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 38–40.
 
26
Ibid., 44.
 
27
Ibid. Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives through Urban Design (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2013), 136–37.
 
29
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 49–51.
 
30
Ibid.
 
31
Ibid.
 
32
Kathryn Schultz, “The Really Big One,” New Yorker, July 20, 2015, http://​www.​newyorker.​com/​magazine/​2015/​07/​20/​the-really-big-one. Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, “Digital Publications Won Big at the Magazine Awards,” Observer, February 2, 2016, http://​observer.​com/​2016/​02/​digital-publications-won-big-at-the-magazine-awards/​. Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 49–51.
 
33
Preservation Green Lab, Older, Smaller, Better, 49–51.
 
36
Sam Zacher, “Witnessing How Older and Smaller Is Better,” Preservation Nation, October 19, 2015, http://​blog.​preservationlead​ershipforum.​org/​2015/​10/​09/​witnessing-how-older-and-smaller-is-better/​.
 
Metadaten
Titel
Older, Smaller, Better: How Older Buildings Enhance Urban Vitality
verfasst von
Stephanie Meeks
Kevin C. Murphy
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Verlag
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-709-4_3