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.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

A pan of the Martin Luther King memorial

Catesby Leigh, writing for the Wall Street Journal, doesn't think well of the capabilities of the Commission on Fine Arts, the federal body that reviews memorials (as well as projects that affect the federal core and presence in the city), in "An Inflated, Ossified Memorial."

I find a number of CFA's decisions unfathomable myself, if quality design is supposed be what is obtained.

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