Articles by

Julie Bird

  • Communities

    Photo: Charlotte Community leaders in a workshop last Friday with New York Restoration Project. Photo credit: Ellen Xie, New York Restoration Project. With a population of just under 800,000, Charlotte, N.C., is a fraction of the size of New York. But Knight Foundation is betting that a novel neighborhood transformation project in the Big Apple […]

    Article · June 16, 2014 by

  • Communities

    Photo: Charlotte skyline by James Willamor on Flickr. Fortune 500 companies from Duke Energy to Bank of America make Tryon Street in Charlotte, N.C., their home. But over the course of a mile, the main north-south thoroughfare through downtown tells a tale of two streets. South Tryon Street bustles with workers from high-rise office buildings, […]

    Article · May 28, 2014 by