Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Butchering the Kennedy Theater, brought to you by the DC Government

(Photos by Peter Sefton)

For more on this sorry subject, see this blog entry from last November Who can you turn to when the most active, aggressive destroyers of the city's livable places are DC Government agencies?.

Here is the "before" photo...

Kennedy Theater, Kennedy Street NW Washington, DC

This photo shows the former commercial buildings of the theater complex. Note the graffiti, which adds additional patina of decay to the destruction.

Kennedy Theater

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