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, June 03, 2006

Off to a conference

Hurricane KatrinaOfficials from the US Army Corps of Engineers stand on top of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet levee while briefing reporters on the status of the levee system 31 May 2006 in New Orleans. Americans still shaken by the devastation of last year's Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,300 people and displaced tens of thousands, wearily braced for a new Atlantic hurricane season that began as forecasters predicted more fierce storms.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)

Off to the Main Street Conference in New Orleans. We'll see what transpires.

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