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.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Dorothy Miner and historic preservation

See the obituary from the New York Times, "Dorothy Miner, 72, Legal Innovator, Dies." She led the NYC effort on two very important cases, Penn Central v. the City of New York, which established the legal basis for historic preservation as a subset of building regulations, which local governments are empowered to address, and another case which distinguished between "freedom of religion" and historic preservation and building regulation with regard to religious properties.

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