by Josh Whitehead (RSS) City of Memphis Government, Livability, Planning and Urban Design | April 18th, 2012 12:35am CDT | 7 Comments
On April 12, 2012, after three months of deliberation, the Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board (the “LUCB”) approved a series of amendments to the Unified Development Code (the “UDC”). This was the first step in a rather complicated approval process that requires action by both the Memphis City Council and the Shelby [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | August 8th, 2010 4:43pm CDT | 2 Comments
This past decade witnessed one of the biggest urban building booms in the nation’s history. Memphis enjoyed its share of higher-density multifamily construction, renovation and conversion within its borders, particularly in its downtown. As we find footing in the wake of the housing market meltdown and ponder what market share multifamily should represent in this [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | July 7th, 2010 4:46pm CDT | Comments Off
The Memphis and Shelby County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission has a formidable task in determining the right size of the legislative body of the proposed metropolitan government. They must balance the lure of small districts that will enable grassroots, neighborhood representation with the accompanying risk of an oversized, unwieldy body that could potentially rival the [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | June 4th, 2010 10:36am CDT | 2 Comments
In my last post, we looked at city council size of the core cities of the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan regions. In this post, we will focus on those cities’ county legislative bodies. Perhaps more so than in the case of the cities, the function and complexion of county legislative bodies vary widely from state [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | May 3rd, 2010 5:05pm CDT | 10 Comments
As the Memphis & Shelby County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission discusses the ideal number of members that should sit on the legislative body of the proposed metropolitan government, I thought it would be interesting to study the size of city councils and county commissions around the country. In this post, I’ll focus on city councils [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | April 5th, 2010 3:38pm CDT | 3 Comments
This post represents the third (Part 1 and Part 2) and final tour of the Memphis parkway system. By this time, you have toured South Parkway from MLK-Riverside Park to East Parkway, twisting and turning several times around its famous “jogs.” Once on East Parkway, you experienced an equally stimulating drive negotiating around the ever [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | March 9th, 2010 4:39pm CDT | 4 Comments
In my last post, I helped guide you on a tour (real or virtual) of South Parkway from the southwest corner of the Memphis parkway system at Martin Luther King-Riverside Park to its southeast corner at Airways. Now, buckle up your seatbelts because we’re ready to turn left onto what is undoubtedly the most traveled [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | February 1st, 2010 12:16am CDT | 9 Comments
Memphis’ parkways, the great emerald necklace that encircles the historic heart of the city, is perhaps one of the best large planning projects this city has ever undertaken. Designed by George Kessler more than a century ago to connect the city’s two great parks he had also been commissioned to design (Overton and Riverside), the [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | January 11th, 2010 10:09pm CDT | 7 Comments
In my last post, I discussed the fallacy of a city – any city – approving new developments at its periphery when all available evidence shows that said developments, be they residential or retail, are simply cannibalizing existing neighborhoods and businesses elsewhere in that city. This is precisely what is occurring in Fisherville, the large [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | December 1st, 2009 9:31pm CDT | 5 Comments
It is little news to anyone familiar with the Memphis market that property along the Poplar corridor is by far the most reliable real estate investment in the region. Generally speaking, the closer a particular property is to Poplar Avenue, the higher its valuation and the greater its annual appreciation. This is not only true [...]
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Photograph by Amie Vanderford
This ongoing series of photographs is intended to show the daily lives of these single mothers in order to invoke recognition of their similarities to all mothers, along with understanding and empathy from the viewer of the strengths that these single mothers possess within the challenging situations they face. My hope is that newfound empathy with these mothers’ lives will give people some pause before they condemn single mothers when discussing issues such as welfare and other politically charged hot buttons.
