I was dusting in my upstairs hall this past weekend, using a damp cloth to clean the plexiglass covering my model neighborhood. Yes, I own a 4-foot by 8-foot topographically accurate model of a neighborhood I thought I was going to build once upon a time. It has 52 houses of all kinds the size… Continue reading Small Town Planner Papers
Author: ivyvann
New Hampshire is graying. What is going on and is there anything we can do about it? As a town planner I would have to turn in my tracing paper and colored markers if I didn’t believe that the built environment had an effect on who lives where and why. We know that, in general,… Continue reading
I love maps. I’ve always loved maps. I love how they lay the whole world out so you can see how things fit together and how natural features push human constructions into shape. Maps are amazing tools, particularly if you draw them yourself. When I was teaching school I used maps all… Continue reading
When I was a child I lived in a small town in central Florida and we had brick streets. I loved those streets: I would ride my bicycle out of my way to ride down a brick street. They were so different from asphalt, so interesting, so beautiful. I also loved the streets where the… Continue reading
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