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.

Monday, July 31, 2006

The Development Process

Despair Inc. is the company that makes posters that mock the traditional kinds of motivational posters that tend to decorate the walls of more corporate places. These ones sum up some of the things I write about.

Note that there is a thread on the tv show "West Wing," in the Daily Telegraph ("If you didn't get 'The West Wing', you won't understand America"). One of the commenters wrote, in discussing how Europeans paint Americans with an extremely broad brush:

I think the West Wing tapped into our optimism; we are flawed but we aspire for better. (Tobin Manley)
Planning
Mediocrity

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