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Top 5 Lessons from a regional planning process
Over the course of the Augusta Sustainable Development Agenda, a 12-month process turned into 16-months. A “development agenda” became a regional planning process. And a typical physical master plan started grappling with sustainable policy issues. Or, as per usual, the project scope expanded. This happens in every project, and can easily throw all your good … Read more
Interstate water wars solved… in 1883
The beginnings of the Georgia / Florida / Alabama water wars have been in the news recently. The biggest problem is the usage needs that pit the states against one another for access to Lake Lanier and the Chattachoochee River. But what if state lines had been drawn up to prevent this and encourage preservation … Read more
Urban design and the changing economy
Its hard to get away from news about the economy, especially in the building industries. Unemployment rate at 11% for construction workers, several major Atlanta design firms instituting layoffs, the Architectural Billings Index at an all time low. These changes are expected to last into 2010 and to not directly follow the traditional V-shaped … Read more
Notes on “A Better Way to Zone”.
For thesis, I’ve picked up Donald Elliott’s ‘A Better Way to Zone’. This has served as a useful counterpart to many of the overly saccharine articles I find praising form based codes. Elliot’s point is that many types of zoning codes (and there is a huge variety out there) are broken in very similar ways. … Read more
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