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Urban Renewal in Lancaster, PA
While on my holiday, I happened to wander East to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Lancaster, it is a place quintessentially American; the middle American city or blend of one part city and one part rolling rural landscape. However, this article is not a tourists guide to Lancaster, it is about a gem of an urban renewal project. The site: a 1910 tobacco warehouse.
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What If?
A recent thought experiment for the city of Seattle regarding green roofs. Consider the image above. Let us highlight the area we are looking at, a green roof off of 1st and Union in downtown Seattle, Washington. Now, the question I asked myself was, “Why would you settle for just a patch of green when you could have a system of living networks right outside your stoop?” Pushing the envelope further, “What if Seattle converted all the rooftops in the inner city into green roofs?”
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