Urban design risks are paying off in Oklahoma City's MidTown

 
BY STEVE LACKMEYER slackmeyer@opubco.com
Published: September 20, 2011

It might just have started with a traffic circle.

Over the past dozen years, I've witnessed downtown neighborhoods such as Deep Deuce and Automobile Alley come back from the virtual dead. MidTown was another hard-luck story just a decade ago, and it's there that some of the boldest urban design risks are being attempted downtown.

MidTown had a lot going against it in the late 1990s; two large properties, the ...


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