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Month: December 2017

Asbury Park Boardwalk, 1940-1945

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 ~ Libby Kesil ~ Leave a comment

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941

December 7, 2017December 8, 2017 ~ Libby Kesil ~ Leave a comment

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  • Stonewall Inn, June 28, 1969
  • The First New York City Pride March, 1970
  • Asbury Park Boardwalk, 1940-1945
  • Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
  • The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963

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Dangerous Design: Walking in Suburbia

Dangerous Design:  Walking in Suburbia

Cities are hot stuff these days.  After a half a century of people fleeing the nation’s cities for a “better life” in the suburbs, they are coming back.  As city centers are becoming more and more desirable places to live, rising property values are making it impossible for the less fortunate to stay.  Those who […]

Sprawl and Smart Growth

Sprawl and Smart Growth

If the first half of the twentieth century was defined by the vertical expansion of American cities with building of soaring skyscrapers, the second half was marked by the migration to the suburbs to escape the traffic, noise and crime of the cities in search of homes with more living and yard space. With this […]

Strip Mall: Is It or Is It Not?

Strip Mall:  Is It or Is It Not?

Putting up shopping centers is big business. Some may cringe when they read of another strip mall going up in their town or pound their fist on the steering wheel when they see a Coming Soon! sign on a wooded lot, announcing another shopping center. Years ago, it was normal to visit a shopping mall […]

A Clean Break: The Freight Village Concept

A Clean Break:  The Freight Village Concept

Sustainability is big business in building, but what can be done to reduce environmental impacts of the freight transport sector to make it more sustainable?  Currently, freight emissions and noise pollution are a big problem in and around the port areas.  To make matters worse, greenfield areas are threatened as the demand for more warehouse […]

Carteret’s Waterfront Public Access to Expand with $13.25 Million Grant Award

Carteret’s Waterfront Public Access to Expand with $13.25 Million Grant Award

Once the site of the world’s largest mahogany plant, Carteret’s burgeoning Waterfront Park, will continue to expand.  For a century, residents of this chemical coast borough could not gaze up their own waterfront because they were blocked from doing so by private industrial waterfront structures. Last December, Mayor Dan Reiman announced the receipt of two […]

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