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  The News and Observer reported today in their Lifestyles section about ACRe, a local non-profit activist group that is located on the corner of Mayview and Chamberlain in Oberlin Village, a village not to far from the below mentioned Cameron Village.  Considering the conversation that has been happening on the subject of Cameron Village, it seems fitting to extend more information about another local entity that adds character and culture to the Oberlin/Cameron Village area.  ACRe is a handful of various activist organizations all wrapped up in one small building.  The various organizations located here include 1304 Bikes, Food not Bombs, ACRe, and Mayview Collective. 

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Cameron Village was the first outdoor shopping mall built between DC and Atlanta.  One of the original decentralizing developments in Raleigh, it offered an alternative to shopping downtown.  Though envisioned as containing single family housing, apartments, retail and restaurants, the development fundamentally ignores traditional growth patterns and follows the engineered formulas of urban sprawl, separating uses by zone.

In other words, it’s not a village.  But why then, does the name suggest that it is a municipality, or even suggest that it functions as one?  What does that tell about its motives?

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A BIG First Friday tonight for sure.  New Raleigh is proud to invite you to check out our new First Friday Map, a work in progress that is currently in alpha testing. Let us know how we can improve it. The map should help you figure out what you are doing tonight.  Below are the many shows that we will be trying to go to.  Hope to see you out, and if you have any tips drop them our way. 

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Below is a list (albeit a month old) of vacancies available with the city’s boards and commissions.

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