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The bold urban future starts now
BY WILL DOIG
America doesn’t do big projects anymore — we’re too broke, no one can agree on our priorities, that era of bold thinking is over. That canard has been repeated so many times that it’s now accepted as gospel. Except it’s not true. In cities in every region of the country, pie-in-the-sky ideas are moving from brainstorm to blueprint to groundbreaking — and 2012 will prove it. From a massive re-imagining of a postindustrial Chicago landscape to the rebirth of the Los Angeles River, these seven ventures point the way to a brave urban future.
READ MORE: http://www.salon.com/2011/12/31/the_bold_urban_future_starts_now/singleton/
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