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| | AIArchitect, Nov. 25, 2002 - Mayors Join Designers to Create Livable Communities |
 | | The La Jolla event opened with a dinner at the prestigious Salk Institute and a keynote address by former Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls, who spoke about how her experience at the Mayors' Institute in 1996 supported her efforts to redevelop Cincinnati's waterfront. |
 | | At that time, she said, Cincinnati's busy highway disconnected the city's downtown from its waterfront, which was characterized by a patchwork of parking lots and obsolete stadiums. |
 | | During her four-year tenure, Mayor Qualls oversaw more than $1.3 billion in public investment that transformed the waterfront with two new sports stadiums, underground parking, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and a freeway redesign that has reconnected the street grid and made the area accessible to pedestrians. |
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