Tag: Poundbury

Get Your Offices into a Walkable Town Center!

Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer August 8, 2012
Leveraging your Town Center for Economic Development So far, this series has taken on three of the essential components of a healthy walkable town center: hotels, retail and multi-family residential. But, traditionally, our town centers were not simply a collection of residences and shops. They formed the commercial... Continue Reading
Category Back of the Envelope, Development, Economic Development, Planning and Design, Sales and Marketing
Tags economic development, Geoff Dyer, Poundbury, Rosemary Beach, town center, Town Center Series
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St. Patrick, Charles Dickens and the Role of Beer in Community

Howard Blackson
Howard Blackson Twitter Instagram March 3, 2011
This morning I took a moment to reflect upon the challenges and tragedy of the past year -- BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well, Aussie wildfires, the Christchurch and Haiti earthquakes -- until, as a Californian, my mind inevitably drifted back to current events in Japan and their nuclear radiation currently floating its... Continue Reading
Category Planning and Design, Public Policy
Tags Beer, community, economic development, Howard Blackson, James Howard Kunstler, Leon Krier, Poundbury
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