MSU Students Make Rebuilding Presentations to Smithville Officials
Starkville-- The same day the town of Smithville joined together to light 16 Christmas trees honoring those who died in April's deadly tornado, a few residents visited the Mississippi State campus to collect ideas about the town's future. Read more. |
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New Project Book!!
CREATE Common Ground: Corinth, MS
Get your copy at Lulu.com |
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Smithville to Get Ideas of Rebuilding
Starkville-- As students wind up classes at Mississippi State University, residents and officials from Smithville were to be on campus, checking out possible designs for a new municipal complex in the town devastated by a tornado in April. Read more. |
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CSTC Attends ACD Conference
The Carl Small Town Center organized and moderated a panel discussion entitled "Rural Community Collaborations" on Monday October 10, 2011 at the Association for community Design 2011 National Conference co-presented with the Association for Architectural Organizations (AAO) and teh Architecture + Design Education Network (A+DEN) in Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Panelists included John Poros, Carl Small Town Center Director and moderator, Brian Morton, Center for Urban and Regional Studies- University of North Carolina, Dewey Thorbeck, Center for Rural Design- University of Minnesota and Scott Penman, Mississippi State University student and CSTC intern. |
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CSTC New Students
CSTC welcomes new students: Danielle Glass, Mike Varhalla, Shelby Cook, and Hollie Phillips.
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Retail Center Revitalization program
In conjunction with the Mississippi Development Authority, The Carl Small
Town Center has helped to develop a program to incentivize the renewing of
"dead" strip centers across the state. Read about it here. |
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Movie proceeds help fund Baptist Town Community Building
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Fulton Park and Pavilion In 2008, Fulton was
awarded a grant of $1.7 million from Michael Waldorf and Julie Grimes
Waldorf, a Fulton native, to fund a park in downtown Fulton. While of a
much larger scale and scope than the park conceived of by the CREATE
Common Ground class, the park was sited where the class proposed that a
downtown park be placed. The park as built is centered around a large
sculpture/water feature. A performance pavilion faces into a plaza at
the front of the park to accommodate large events. At the rear of the
park is an extensive playground area as well as a picnic area. The Carl
Small Town Center is excited to have been part of this process in a
small way and will continue to help communities in northeast Mississippi
through the CREATE Common Ground process to envision their future.
| Asheville, North Carolina -- like many cities and towns around the country -- is hurting financially.
It’s not that Asheville is some kind of deserted ghost town. Rather,
it’s a picturesque mountain city with a population of about 83,000 that
draws tourists from all over the world, especially during the
leaf-peeping season. But it’s also a city that appeals to its residents,
who revel in strolling about a true walkable downtown chock-full of
restaurants and retail shops featuring locally grown and crafted
products. Downtown is not only one of Asheville’s main draws; it also
serves as a major driver in helping the city overcome its budgetary
doldrums. Read more. 01/23/12
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If you want to find an unassuming place where bicycling is a way of life
and nobody makes a big deal about it, head south. The south of Sweden,
that is, where the small university town of Lund has a big bicycle
habit. They just don't advertise it. Read more. 01/16/12
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I set out the other day to find the outer edge of the Philadelphia
suburbs and ended up in a Chester County subdivision called Oakcrest.
Located 45 miles west of Center City, just outside Coatesville, Oakcrest
has a network of immaculately paved streets, glossy utility boxes, and
an active sales office. What it does not have is a lot of houses. Read more. 01/06/12
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The Starkville Planning and Zoning commission today will have a second round of public hearings regarding the city's use of form-based codes. Since the spring, city officials have worked with Placemakers planning firm to address inconsistencies in zoning classifications, particularly along Highway 182 and downtown. At 5:30 tonight at City Hall, the commission will consider repealing and replacing the city's permitted land uses chart to include form-based codes, an alternative to traditional zoning that shapes construction to achieve a community vision, according to the agenda and supporting materials posted to the city's website. Read more. 12/13/11
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The Starkville Planning and Zoning Commission will hold public hearings for the implementation of form-based codes drafted by Placemakers, LLC and for repealing and replacing the city's current chart of permitted land uses. The commission has spent several meetings and work sessions over the past few months discussing the two issues. Read more. 12/12/11
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Many people in Mississippi put significant effort into successfully
reviving downtown areas and making them welcoming places. But to get
downtown, people often have to drive past worn-out, unoccupied strip
malls overgrown with weeds. Leland Speed, executive director of the
Mississippi Development Authority, said most strip malls have a lifespan
of only 15 to 20 years before the anchor store leaves and the community
is stuck with a vacant building. Read more. 09/26/2011
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“HELL is other people,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. He nonetheless spent
much of his life in Paris, the better to interact with other French
intellectuals. Cities have long been incubators and transmitters of
ideas, and, correspondingly, engines of economic growth. Read more. 09/07/2011
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At a time when all levels of government are looking to cut, cut, cut,
the scarcity mindset is poisoning America. Far too many municipal,
county, state and federal agencies have lost their way fighting over
crumbs, wasting time, and distracting everyone from the ultimate goal:
planning for the next economy. It doesn't have to be this way. Read more. 07/26/2011
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