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Title: Progress Edition 2007
Description: Progress in the City features a Q&A session with Mayor Mark Funkhouser (pp. 2-3 and 20-21); Downtown, 18th & Vine, and River Market (pp. 4-5 and 14); Crossroads Arts District and Crown Center (pp. 6-7); Country Club Plaza and Westport (p. 8 and 10); and Brookside, Waldo, Southtown (pp. 9 and 18-19).
Date: 2007-06-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Cultivating Community
Description: Article spotlights Kansas City residents Jason and Candy Fields and other families who have transformed blighted properties in the Lykins Neighborhood into "urban homesteads." More than 20 families have purchased homes in the neighborhood, creating a sustainable and self-sufficient living model through farming and other food production. Many of these residents are former suburbanites and members of the Rock, a non-denominational Christian church whose members establish house churches in the urban core so they can better serve those communities.
Date: 2011-09-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Master Plan for Kansas City
Description: A plan of action developed by the City Plan Commission and published in 1947. Members of the City Plan Commission as well as Master Plan staff are listed. The plan covers a broad range of factors impacting civic life, including: residential development, industrial planning, future land use, schools, and many others. The following color maps documenting current and proposed development are included: Residential Areas, Business & Industry, Major Thoroughfares, Local Transit Lines, Public Schools, Recreational Areas, Public Buildings, Future Land Use & Population Density, Downtown Area, Riverfront Area, and Master Plan.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Report

Title: 12th and Main Streets
Description: Looking north along Main Street from 12th Street. On the right is the southwest corner of the Jones Store building. Harzfeld's Department Store is visible one block south, and signs for King Joy Lo Restaurant, Liggett's Drugs, B & G Hosiery, Newman Theater, and Berkson's line the west side of the street from south to north. The block on the west side of Main was razed in the early 1970s and now occupied by City Center Square.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: 'Inner-Ring' Suburbs New Development in Older Communities
Description: Article describes both the challenges and advantages of 'inner-ring suburbs,' defined as "mostly post-World War II communities." Their proximity to downtown and their established infrastructure are making them more attractive but their small houses and lots often don't attract modern buyers.
Date: 2008-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Grand Centennial for a Grand Church
Description: The Grand Avenue Temple United Methodist Church (205 E. 9th St., southeast corner of 9th Street and Grand Boulevard) was completed February 1912. It is the second church building that the United Methodist Church built in that location. Today the church is home to the "inderdenominational Lazarus Ministries, which provides clothing, meals, a health clinic, a library and a women's shelter to Kansas City's urban core. Many of the 200 or so worshippers at the Sunday service are homeless." Article gives some history of the building and church.
Date: 2012-02-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Why People Are Fleeing The Urban Core
Description: In the first of four articles on why families are moving out of the urban core, current and former residents tell why they are leaving their neighborhoods. Abandoned and neglected properties, falling property values, loss of a sense of community, and a higher cost of living are the main reasons cited.
Date: 2010-04-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hope Builds Along Troost
Description: Article reports on recent revitalization and diversification efforts happening along Troost Avenue, which has represented "Kansas City's racial dividing line" since the 1960s. Several businesses and business owners on Troost are profiled, including Soil Service (7130 Troost), Niecie's Restaurant (6441 Troost), Blue Star Motorcycles (5508 Troost), MissConception Glass (5404 Troost), Mike's Taven (5424 Troost), and other establishments. The community building programs of the Southtown Planning Center, Rockhurst University, and St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran Church are also described.
Date: 2013-04-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Urban State of Mind
Description: Article looks at several area mixed-use developments like Leawood's Mission Farms and Park Place, Lee's Summit's New Longview and Downtown Main Street, and the Northland's Zona Rosa. "Essentially a reinvention of the philosophies under which most cities were settled in the early 20th century, New Urbanism promotes a mixture of amenities in close proximity to one another, allowing people access to their daily needs--without the need of the car." The first New Urban community offering walkable, connected streets and gathering places was Seaside, Florida.
Date: 2009-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

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