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Tag Archives: whimsy
Strict planning & zoning destroys eclectic, offbeat, and funky
After three decades in the planning profession and several more years since retirement, I’ve come to the conclusion that if you want your community to maintain or build a funky, hip, offbeat, or eccentric vibe, it can not be done … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, Advocacy, archaeology, architecture, art, branding, business, cities, civics, commerce, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, demographics, deregulation, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, family, Food, fun, gentrification, health, historic preservation, history, homelessness, Housing, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, marketing, Mining, opinion, pictures, placemaking, planning, poverty, product design, revitalization, shopping, signs, Small business, social equity, spatial design, third places, tourism, Travel, urban design, urban planning, visual pollution, zoning
Tagged art, artistic, blight, cities, culture, eclectic, flair, fun, funky, neighborhoods, offbeat, planning, signs, style, towns, whimsy, zoning
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Eccentri’city’ of place – celebrate whimsy!
“Get rid of the strict grid” may sound like fighting words to many urban planners and engineers, but please let me first explain. I don’t necessarily have a problem with a gridiron street pattern when it is employed in the appropriate context. In any area … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, art, Cars, cities, civics, commerce, culture, density, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, geography, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, product design, skylines, spatial design, sustainability, tourism, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged adaptive reuse, cities, eccentricities, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, spatial design, street layout, transportation, urban design, urban planning, whimsy
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