Home › News ›

Cities Suffer Amnesia

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
14 November 2000 - 6:00am

Sprawl is threatening quality of life, endangering old neighborhoods, and eroding the "collective memory" of our cities, says National Trust for Historic Preservation

"Suburban sprawl is eroding Americans' quality of life by 'scattering industry, commerce and population all over the landscape' and destroying the shared past that strengthens communal ties, a nationally prominent historic preservationist said in Cincinnati Friday.Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, told the Cincinnati Preservation Association that sprawl, by endangering old buildings and neighborhoods, is chipping away at the ''collective memory'' of Cincinnati and other cities."

Full Story: Cities Suffer Amnesia
Source: The Cincinnati Post, October 14, 2000
»
Bookmark and Share
“
Planners, architects, artists, and other community members can make the exploratory walk a key tool in re-making places, stemming from the emotions and atmospheres perceived by people who live there or visit them, and plan outward from the experiential, toward trajectories, shapes, and physical structures.
”