How to devalue a neighborhood
Changes to land use and street design impact property values and the trajectory of entire neighborhoods—for good or for bad. Make incremental improvements and you’ll see incremental gains for everyone. Take drastic measures like widening roads and leveling productive buildings to create parking and big box stores and you’ll seriously damage the surrounding homes and businesses.
Watch this video filmed in Huntington, WV to see this concept in action and hear Charles Marohn's ideas for reversing the downward trajectory of a neglected street:
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We talk with Dr. Shima Hamidi of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose research cuts into the core assumptions of the civil engineering profession in regard to traffic design.