Country Town
Country Town
Models for market: careful, healthy, sturdy growth
- Templates integrate to a larger order of town life
- Support property value, connection to metro area
All scales of practrice work in purposeful ways
- Public dialogue and decisions require clear guides
- Case studies and form based codes at all scales
Social capital and urban ecology require consensus
- To replace obsolescence and provide new housing
- To yield opportunity and equity
- To support well being and civic allegiance
- To keep prosperity local
Society’s cornerstone and continuing physical heritage
- Small towns can evolve and absorb change
- Small towns grow smart: Successional Urbanism
A linear armature traverses each jurisdiction
- Roads once connected small center, outlying hamlet
- Now the network for movement dominated sprawl