Category: Design
17
Apr
Cultural Interest Design Downtown Get Outside Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Local News Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go South Green
…And You Get a Mural!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Why did it take a pandemic for Hartford to get Big Mural Energy? The latest, still in progress, is at Buckingham and Wadsworth Streets, where...
18
Mar
Skinny House on a Broad Street
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you one of my favorite buildings in Hartford. There is nothing more to say except “There, there. Aren’t you...
15
Mar
Cultural Interest Design Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods History Long Reads
Hartford County Building
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Like most, I have had no occasion to enter 95 Washington Street, and I am pretty okay with that. . . especially because my curiosity...
03
Mar
Something Old, Something New
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you haven’t been to Park and Park Terrace lately, you might not have noticed the new housing installed over the last year. Unlike the...
28
Feb
Access Activism Asylum Hill Barry Square Behind the Rocks Blue Hills Clay Arsenal Covid-19 Design Downtown Frog Hollow Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Long Reads Municipal North East North Meadows Parkville Quality of Life Reader Tip Sheldon/Charter Oak South End South Green South Meadows South West Transportation Upper Albany West End
Hartford’s Pedestrian and Cyclist Crashes, 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Besides looking at the fatal pedestrian/cyclist crash data statewide in 2020, I was tracking all collisions with pedestrians/cyclists in Hartford. Except for first responders and...
22
Feb
Unhidden Gems: Bosnian-American Islamic Cultural Center
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Before Hartford’s Bosnian community renovated this warehouse in 2007 creating a cultural center and mosque, it had at least six other lives: Buick dealership, auto...
28
Jan
Activism Commentary Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Quality of Life Reader Tip Regionalism Transportation
Moving to Slow the Carnage
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After 2020's astounding and unforgivable death count -- at least 60 pedestrians and six cyclists lost their lives in Connecticut -- maybe this will be...
01
Dec
Access Commentary Construction Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Municipal Myth Busting Quality of Life Transportation
Pedestrian Deaths Across Connecticut in November 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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At least 52 pedestrians and six cyclists have been killed in collisions with motor vehicles in Connecticut this year.