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, February 18, 2008

Great piece on the urbanism initiatives of the Prince of Wales

From Property Week, the UK's leading development publication, "The Prince and the Revolution." The article discusses the Prince's Foundation's projects on sustainable urbanism, "Enquiry through Design," where stakeholders create masterplans together, and the Phoenix Trust, an organization that is the developer of the last resort, taking on intractable development "opportunities" such as abandoned mill buildings and the like.

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