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, May 25, 2009

Old quote of the day

I used to use this in my email .sig. It's relevant to the previous post.

"Even as cities in the United States and elsewhere seek to recharge their economic well-being by restoring (and typically, transforming for contemporary use) evocative buildings, public spaces, and neighborhoods, they also risk erasing the very features that had given these pieces of the urban physical environment their original distinction." -- Spirou, Costas & Larry Bennett. "Revamped Stadium...New neighborhood." Urban Affairs Review. v37:5, May 2002, 675-702.

They wrote the book
It's Hardly Sportin' Stadiums, Neighborhoods and the New Chicago

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