The first Downtown skyscraper in 20 years gets her crown, a contemporary theatre group creates Cincinnati's first LGBT Theatre Festival, a pioneering vegetarian eatery gets a new life and the completion of the nation's first K-12 arts school are just some of the things Soapbox will be watching in 2010.
Who has the greenest neighborhood in America? The answer might surprise you. With an estimated 500 vacant historic buildings in Over-the-Rhine the opportunity to create America's oldest and largest green neighborhood exists right here. An innovative study compiled by local architects, historic preservationists, developers, and environmental experts reveals that 19th century design intuition melded with 21st century innovation might give Cincinnati the leg up and make other cities green with envy.
Who has the greenest neighborhood in America? The answer might surprise you. With an estimated 500 vacant historic buildings in Over-the-Rhine the opportunity to create America's oldest and largest green neighborhood exists right here. An innovative study compiled by local architects, historic preservationists, developers, and environmental experts reveals that 19th century design intuition melded with 21st century innovation might give Cincinnati the leg up and make other cities green with envy.
San Francisco. New York. Seattle. Cities with urban living options that afford big, beautiful views at top dollar prices. How about Cincinnati? The city's unique hillsides surrounding the downtown basin offer residents affordability and access to all the urban core amenities you can imagine but also provide million dollar views for a fraction of the cost of those better known 'view' cities. Soapbox takes a look at four homes from these affordable urban neighborhoods and the Cincinnatians who've found their own room with a view.
Cincinnati's suburbs could use a facelift. Nationally, sprawl and declining family populations are leaving behind outmoded and vacant strip malls and underutilized buildings and the midwest is no exception. By using urban design solutions developed by national experts to recycle these underperforming spaces and implementing innovative ideas developed locally in UC's Niehoff Urban Design Studio, Cincinnati has a great opportunity to revitalize its aging, inner ring suburbs and turn these spaces into the focal point of walkable communities.
Distilled down to their essence, elections are about winning and losing. But they are also about choices. Cincinnati has its share on Election Day 2009.
What makes a city a 'music city'? Is it a homongenous, definable sound, or something more? Could it be an attitude, or is it simply how well we value 'art' amongst us? The 8th annual Midpoint Music Festival celebrates our 'music city', and questions where our place is amongst other musical cities.
Soapbox's new managing editor examines our fascination with being #1 or #38 and wonders whether or not we're missing the actual stories behind the numbers.
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