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Culture Where You Least Expect It: Urban Planning Lessons from the MALL of Cookeville, TN

2016-11-13
On: 11/13/2016
In: Near South

We see the MALL of Cookeville, TN as an authentic, local reinvention of a place that the corporate world forgot. Perhaps it can offer urban planning lessons to other communities stuck with abandoned big boxes.

8 Photos: The Birth of Somerville’s Chuckie Harris Park

2013-07-15
On: 07/15/2013
In: Boston, Photo Essays

With over 50 trees, a three-story water sprinkler that can also hold a movie screen, and tons of play features, Somerville’s locally-designed Chuckie Harris Park represents a truly innovative reclamation of urban space for public use.

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