I met him in March in Denver. talked to him about doing some legwork in developing a sustainability code and some of the work that is being done in SLC. He was very knowledgeable.
I met him in March in Denver. talked to him about doing some legwork in developing a sustainability code and some of the work that is being done in SLC. He was very knowledgeable.
Not a clue. Who is he?Originally posted by Budgie
Chis is an attorney and planner who is the managing partner of Clarion Associates, one of the nation's preeminent land use law and planning firms. He is also author of numerous PAS reports, mostly on environmental planning topics. I am not much into the idea of a "top" planner in a field where notoriety is usually a bad thing, but he probably fits the bill as well as anyone.
Forgive the naivite of this post - I'm a newbie here....
My problem with Duany is that the the forms encouraged are so stuck in an idealized past that just doesn't seem to fit with how people live today. It's too easy to create a simulation of a traditional village - the perfect example is Seaside, in my opinion - few people live there for real, and (at least the times I've visited) nobody hangs out on the porches or chats over the front fences.
I actually live in a town were the houses are close to the street, with front porches and white picket fences. My neighbor grew up in the town, and his father actually grew up in the same house, so they've seen all the changes. One of the greatest changes he talks about is the migration from the front porch to the back yard. The back yards used to be for 1)Outhouses 2) Vegetable gardens and 3) Laundry. All the socializing happened on the street and the front porch - most of the houses didn't have access to the back yard except from the basement. Now the backyards have been turned into lawns and gardens and patios, and the porches are decorated to look like people use them, but rarely does it happen. Obviously this is a societal change, the result of cars, and television, and constraints on our time. Duany's ideals just don't seem to take how we've changed into account - which was apparent with the whole New Orleans debacle....
Still, he seems to have the most interesting thing going, in terms of creating discussion outside of the planning/architectural world. I'm curious as to who his competition is, in terms of other approaches to planning?
Consultant in the Denver area who was very instrumental in putting together the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (RMLUI) at the University of Denver Law School. The RMLUI conference, which is usually held in March, is the best conference I've been to and that includes the National APA stuff. I haven't been to the University of Wisconsin session yet... so maybe I shouldn't be to hasty in my assessments.
"And all this terrible change had come about because he had ceased to believe himself and had taken to believing others. " - Leo Tolstoy
I nominate myself for this award (as America's Top Planner) as I am one of the few who has deemed (correctly, I might add) that fake plam trees in front of a Hooters restaurant is indeed a sign.
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You get all squeezed up inside/Like the days were carved in stone/You get all wired up inside/And it's bad to be alone
You can go out, you can take a ride/And when you get out on your own/You get all smoothed out inside/And it's good to be alone
-Peart
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