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April 18, 2011
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Reflections on some National American Planning Association conference sessions
On Monday (April 11, 2011) I attended a session that previewed chapters of a forthcoming book titled “Regional Planning in America.” One presentation focused on the contributions of noted landscape architect, Ian McHarg, the author of Design with Nature. McHarg, who also founded the firm Wallace, McHarg, Roberts and Todd, helped usher in a new era of planning by More
April 11, 2010
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Spiro Agnew squirmed in his chair as he listened to consultants in April 1964 describe their plan for preserving the mostly rural valleys of northern Baltimore County. They had been hired by a wealthy group of landholders to develop the strategy, and Agnew, then the head of Baltimore County government, didn’t mask his impatience with their exquisite maps and data projections.
“Gentlemen, don’t go any further,” Agnew halted the consultants, recalled Bill Roberts, one of them. “I’ve had enough. If I honored this, everyone with a T-square and a pencil would be doing the county plan for us.” More
December 16, 2009
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In its national awards, the American Planning Association recently gave its 2010 National Planning Landmark Award to Baltimore County’s “Plan for the Valleys.”
Here’s the award summary from the APA: “In the early 1960s, the Green Spring and Worthington Valleys, a rural region of Baltimore County, Maryland, was facing intense urbanization pressure. The community had the foresight to realize that if uncontrolled, the growth would surely wipe out More