No Place Called Home - Community at the Millennium [Excerpt From Chapter Eight] "Another question: what is a community at the end of the 20th century? A focus group

Moving Hampton Roads - "The Joseph Papers", Summer 2000. This paper was commissioned by The Joseph Center at Christopher Newport University for the study of local, state a

When The New Urbanism Meets An Old Neighborhood - by Alex Marshall This article first appeared in Metropolis May, 1995 East Ocean View in Norfolk, Virginia, is a neighborhood on death row, awai

The Demolition Man - by Alex Marshall This article first appeared in Metropolis MAY 1995 Metropolis writer Alex Marshall spoke to Andres Duany about his role in t

What Makes A Neighborhood Viable? - a roundtable debate - Alex Marshall and Andres Duany Metropolis May, 1995 Our article in May about the redevelopment of East Ocean View in Norf

Who Gets the Favors? - The Virginian-Pilot Monday, July 19, 1999 BY ALEX MARSHALL New ways of looking how we grow and develop are rare. But I think I've found one.

Don't Let Kirn Library Fly Away - Monday, August 16, 1999 COLUMN FOR: The Virginian-Pilot BY ALEX MARSHALL At the end of the movie Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman pleads with Humphre

Greater Norfolk: Why Not? - By Alex Marshall For Port Folio Magazine Now I've just cut my own throat, Mayor Paul Fraim said sheepishly. The Norfolk leader's fearful v

Whither Virginia Beach? - FOR PORT FOLIO MAGAZINE THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1999 BY ALEX MARSHALL Virginia Beach. The promised land. It glistens in the sun, a shimmering me

A Path Not Taken - BY ALEX MARSHALL COVER STORY PORT FOLIO MAGAZINE Sometimes I like to mull over the choices we have taken as a region and then, in a masochis

Old Resort City Of Virginia Beach Now More Welcoming - FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1993 by Alex Marshall When was the last time a city offered you a seat? If your town is like most towns, not recently. The

New Suffolk Courthouse: Will it Revive Downtown? - By Alex Marshall For The Virginian-Pilot SUFFOLK -- This handsome new courthouse of brick and stone that sits on Main Street is one answer to

Urban Renewal in Norfolk - What Was Lost: A lot. What Was Gained: Not Much. BY ALEX MARSHALL Tuesday, August 10, 1999 The 1950s was about new stuff, not old stuff