Planning School Grounds for Outdoor Learning by Cheryl Wagner and Douglas Gordon, Hon. AIA
Almost every K–12 school has at least some outdoor space that faculty could use (or already do) to breathe life […]
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Rarely Taught Planning Skills.
Fundamental Skills for Planners. For the planning profession to survive and prosper, its practitioners need to find a position of
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What a Producer Does: The Art of Moviemaking (not the Business) by Buck Houghton
Many professions have valuable lessons for city planners. Movie producers may not come to mind as an instructive profession, but
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Seeing Trees; A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin by Sonja Dümpelmann
“A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship with nature and the
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A Photo Essay of Historic Gas Stations on Highways
RESPECT. There was a day when design was respected,even for gas stations along the nation’shighways. Pure Oil Company led the
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High Performance Development Corridors
The Thing about Commercial “Strips”. Prevailing conditions. First, let’s be clear aboutour subject. The corridors of which we speak are roadways
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The Design and Content of a Character Main Street
CENTRAL FLORIDA’S CHARACTER MAIN STREETS.The five county Orlando Region is fortunate to have many small cities and towns with character
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The Collaboration Calendar 2019
CharacterTowns.org presents The Collaboration Calendar as a link in the website footer. The 2019 Calendar provides the dates and locations of the
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Multi-Disciplinary Urban Design Studios
Design studios are inherently collaborative. Organization of a multi-discipline design studio is an important addition to any community. Design studios
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How architects and designers collaborate, AIGA Article
Living in an Urban World: how do architects and designers collaborate? Architects and graphic designers have long records of working