{"368561":{"#nid":"368561","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Professor Dunham-Jones gives insight on action for dying neighborhoods","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThere are hundreds of stories of failed subdivisions left empty by the housing bust, where homeowners are stuck staring into vacant lots of PVC pipes and weeds. There are very few stories where a half-finished development has been saved from ruin. The rescue of one such development, by the city in which it is located, is being heralded as a potential solution to some of the worst mistakes of the housing crisis. The local newspaper, the Covington News, praised the project, writing that \u0022a community has been brought back from the dead.\u0022 That Covington, a city 35 miles east of Atlanta, did anything at all is unusual, said Ellen Dunham-Jones, an architect and urban-design professor at Georgia Tech who has a chapter on the subdivision, Walker\u0027s Bend, in a forthcoming book, Retrofitting Sprawl.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I really applaud them tremendously, since its pretty unusual: Cities just aren\u0027t in the business of being developers,\u0022 she said. \u0022In conservative districts, there\u0027s a philosophical sense that the city as master developer smacks of socialism.\u0022\u0026nbsp;But some residents say that the way the city intervened in this subdivision has just made life there worse -- raising questions about whether or not government intervention in the housing market is a good thing, and about whether mixed-income housing can ever work.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2015-01-27 09:43:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:26","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"black fly larvae","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/21\/real_estate\/covington-housing-atlantic\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"116181","name":"covington"},{"id":"116171","name":"dying cities"},{"id":"116161","name":"ellen Dunham"},{"id":"939","name":"new urbanism"},{"id":"639","name":"retrofitting suburbia"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}