What is Urban Design Doing in Moreland, Georgia?
This following was written by Richard Dagenhart. Moreland, Georgia, has about four hundred citizens and no more than two hundred buildings, as long as we count every garage, shed and dog house. So why...
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This following was written by Richard Dagenhart. My first post – “What is Urban Design Doing in Moreland” – described a way to understand the physical make-up of towns and cities by observing what is...
View ArticleUrban Design Lesson One: Subdivide First, Buildings and Land Uses Come Later
This following was written by Richard Dagenhart. When General James Oglethorpe climbed up Yamacraw Bluff and laid out Savannah, he didn’t know it, but he had learned my first lesson already. He...
View ArticleUrban Design Lesson Two: Design Streets as the Most Important Public Spaces …...
This following was written by Richard Dagenhart. For decades, street design was the job of traffic engineers, who struggled to move more and more automobiles and trucks. The American Association of...
View ArticleUrban Design Lesson Three: Design Places Knowing that Places are Made, not...
This following was written by Richard Dagenhart. “The main idea for this project is to create an authentic place for your community.” Every time I hear this I clinch my jaw so I can keep my mouth shut....
View ArticleUrban Design Lesson 4: Make Boundaries that Join Parts of the City Together,...
This following was written by Richard Dagenhart. Stone wall at Robert Frost’s farm in Derry, New Hampshire. “Good boundaries make good neighbors” is a familiar quote from Robert Frost’s poem, The...
View ArticleUrban Design Lesson 5: Design in Small Increments, Even When Building Big...
This following was written by Richard Dagenhart. One of the unsuitable ideas behind projects is the very notion that they are projects, abstracted out of the ordinary city and set apart…..The aim...
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