The 'Plan of Nashville' is an 18-month project to develop a vision of how the urban core should look, and urban design principles to guide the area's future.
"A significant difference from previous planning efforts is the area of study. The Plan of Nashville will not be bound by the noose of the interstate loop. This plan will consider, in addition to downtown, the frame areas--Germantown and East Nashville, west side and south side--as well as the spoke roads that are the historic entries into the central city. According to NCDC design director Mark Schimmenti, "This is the first plan since 1962 that will look at the entire urban core." ... Ultimately, the plan will help Nashville reimagine itself as an urban entity. "If you study the rhetoric about Nashville ever since the consolidation of Nashville and Davidson County," Houghton says, "we talk about Metro Nashville, about the CBD, about individual neighborhoods. We seem to have lost the ability to think about the city of Nashville, even though it's still out there. This plan will think about the city."
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