some pics from this winter (downtown at night) and this summer (everything else.) broken down by neighborhood, as referenced by the circled areas on the map (except Fort Sanders, which i've shown before, will show again, and is deserving of its own thread.)
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University of Tennessee - well, i've finally photographed it.
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Maplehurst - the little area just below the "A" on the map. caught between downtown and UT and due to its terrain, there's some old housing which has managed to avoid being razed, showing how Knox once was.
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looking back at UT and Fort Sanders
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downtown from south of the river
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some downtown pics at night in winter.
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College Hills/Mechanicsville/Western Heights/Beaumont/Lonsdale/West View - this was once one of the most notorious areas of inner-city Knoxville. things have gotten better, although a lot of bad pockets remain. it's also where i get my film processed.
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In the early 20th century, Mechanicsville evolved into a prosperous neighborhood of African American businesses and working families, and remained so for several decades. Unfortunately, like most of Knoxville's inner city neighborhoods, Mechanicsville experienced a decline during the second half of the twentieth century. The freeway that would become Interstate 40 was constructed between Mechanicsville and downtown Knoxville. College Homes, a public housing development, was built as an Urban Renewal project near the commercial center of the neighborhood, just below Knoxville College. As crime rose in the area, families moved away and businesses closed. Urban Renewal's promise of blight removal had failed. By the 1990s, Mechanicsville, with the arguable exception of the historic district of "Old Mechanicsville," had become a collection of vacant or decaying properties, with little hope of attracting private investment.
In 1997, the local public housing authority, Knoxville's Community Development Corporation (KCDC), received a $22 million HOPE VI grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to revitalize the College Homes portion of the neighborhood. Under a cloud of controversy, the families living in the College Homes barrack style-apartments were relocated and the housing project was demolished. The area was then rebuilt with single family and duplex homes designed to blend architecturally with remaining late 19th century neighborhood. In addition, KCDC purchased over 100 vacant lots throughout the neighborhood for new construction, which was also designed to fit in architecturally with the remaining neighborhood. Efforts were made to enable low income families from the area to rent or purchase these homes./original.jpg
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heading out west to Bearden, where old suburban Knoxville ends and the sprawl nightmare begins. there's some interesting mixed-density housing in the area.
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off to west Knoxville!
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it looks like a nice undiscovered town. Funny how it reminds me of Austin-it's got its own UT with the same school colors, a fairly well kept downtown, surrounded by hills, Oak Ridge high-tech industry cluster, etc. I could live in a place like that.
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