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.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

A lesson from the suburbs about too much of a "good thing"

From "Fairfax Ponders Restrictions on Big-Box Stores," subtitled "Developers Might Face Stepped-Up Oversight," in the Washington Post:

Issues with big boxes

It's interesting that the suburbs are beginning to figure out that large scale retail isn't necessarily uniformly beneficial.

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