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Columbia, just another suburb or the "Next American City"?

  • 1.  Columbia, just another suburb or the "Next American City"?

    Posted 11-08-2013 02:47 PM
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    Friday, November 8, 2013

    What the New Town of Columbia Can Teach Us 50 Years Later


    In a time when "walk scores", Jane Jacobs, new urbanism, streetcars and bicycling appear to be the best answers we have to make cities livable in the 21st century, the big ideas of the sixties seem to be thoroughly discredited, from nuclear power to space travel and from urban renewal to new towns. And with those concepts the age of brave new visions for cities has sunset as well,  or shall we say, replaced with the recreation of  small town America? (Seaside, Kentlands, Celebration).

    So, what can  Jim Rouse's "Next American City", Columbia Maryland with its fairy tale street names, teach us today, 50 years after Rouse unveiled his plans?
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    Klaus Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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