Word: derelicts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rare stretch of paved road is announced by a sign bearing the President's face and the slogan GLORIA CARES. In many villages, government troops are dug in behind sandbags and razor wire. Three hours later, we transfer to trail bikes and roar along deserted tracks to a semi-derelict logging shack. Waiting there are five N.P.A. soldiers with M-16s, who guide us through the darkening jungle to a camp lit by flickering oil lamps. "The comrades are very excited you're here," says a voice from the gloom...
...rail lines, gas tanks--corroded ruins of the industrial age--were reborn as archaeological monuments among newly planted groves and grasslands. And the designer, Peter Latz, didn't hesitate to directly invade the factory precincts with trees and smaller plantings, playgrounds and rock-climbing walls. By that means the derelict factory was woven back into the world of the living. The past, instead of operating as a burden--something the Germans know all about--becomes the very opposite, a plaything for the present. If history starts looking like a cage, who says you can't use it for monkey bars...
...Four. Remove the derelict bikes that line Plympton St. It’s happened to us all at least once: rushing up Plympton on our way to class, we step a little bit too freely, one of the bikes topples over, and everyone stares. No one wants to be that kid. And the sidewalk is hardly wide enough for two people to pass, let alone pass around a bike with a crooked seat and two bent tires. We propose that the bikes be sold by the University, to facilitate our next wish?...
...Kroloff is pushing for a plan to accelerate sales of derelict and abandoned properties - an effort Nagin started before Katrina, selling off older homes in the city's center to nonprofits. Now those derelict properties, many in Central City, are fueling the city's horrific murder rate as gangs use the abandoned housing. Kroloff's idea is to sell them for $1 if necessary, then cut people's taxes by 50% if they stay 10 years...
...according to Tulane School of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff. He notes that Washington, D.C., quickly turned around its inner core by offering tax incentives and other inducements for people to return. Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown. "New Orleans has many historical neighborhoods with fantastic houses on high ground. We could make it richer architecturally on less land without displacing anybody involuntarily," says Kroloff. Downside? "People...