Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

A new form of adaptive reuse and "recycling"

New trash cans

ANC Commissioner Nicholas Alberti reports:


My neighbors came home last night to discover that someone had broken into their home, loaded their goods into large plastic bags and hauled them to the alley. When they went to the alley they encountered someone about to load the bags into one of the new trash cans with wheels. The police were called and responded quickly.

We have not recieved the new trash cans on our block, so thanks to the kindly thief, our neighbor now has one.

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