Tag: rural preservation

Land Use: Preserving the rural landscape with agrarian urbanism

Hazel Borys
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As the harvest starts to come in here in Manitoba and conversations with my farming friends point to a good yield, I’ve been thinking about how to preserve these lands. Rural communities are often the ones with the greatest constraints, especially when it comes to finances. Without federal support, holistic zoning reform... Continue Reading
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Rural Preservation: One more reason to care about cities

Hazel Borys
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We talk a lot on PlaceShakers about urbanism, but less about one of our big drivers: rural preservation. Compact development patterns could have dramatically decreased the 41 million acres of rural land that the US lost to development from 1982 to 2007. That’s almost the size of the State of Washington. Clearly, we... Continue Reading
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