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.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Another "great" blog entry worth re-reading

002Photo by Elise Bernard.

Urban Health, Nasty Cities, Broken Windows, and Community Efficacy from last April, about the Broken Windows and Community Efficacy theories of disorder management.

It's long, but important.

For more on this topic see:

-- More confirmation of the Broken Windows thesis
-- Detroit neighborhood demonstrates that "Broken windows" theory + "community efficacy" = success
-- New York's City Wide Vandals Task Force fights graffiti
AND
-- Every Litter Bit Hurts

litterbit

Bridget Murray Law at 406 H Street NE, Washington, DCPhoto from the Washington Post. Bridget Law Murray in front of 406 H Street--a building that has been vacant at least 20 years. The building is owned by John Formant of Formant Real Estate, on the 200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast. His mother had a real estate office on H Street back in the 1950s.


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