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.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Picture is worth thousand words

Is the title of a piece from the Baton Rouge Advocate on "Smart Growth Illustrated," a set of case studies from the EPA on various quality development projects. As readers may know, I hate the term "Smart Growth," preferring something more like "Sustainable Land Use and Resource Planning." I suppose I wouldn't mind the SG term, if we would also use "Dumb Growth" as a term, and "Lousy Designed Developments" as yet another term.

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