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--- What impression do you get when you exit the highway and head into town? Can you tell when you're leaving one neighborhood and entering another? Suzanne Rhees looks at how planning for gateways can help create and strengthen our sense of place.
The Property Rights Challenge: What's A Planner To Do?
by Irving Schiffman
--- The growth of the property rights movement has been reflected in court decisions and legislative enactments -- and has affected local land use regulation. Professor and attorney Irving Schiffman reviews the changing landscape of planning law, and offers guidelines for planners in responding to the property rights challenge.
Gaining Legitimacy
by Otis White
--- With local power structures breaking down, Otis White examines how commissioners and other public officials can gain "legitimacy" in the eyes of the public.
The Effective Planning Commissioner:
Why Don't Planning Commissioners Get the Respect They Deserve?
--- You have to give respect to get respect, says Elaine Cogan in her look at ways in which planning commissioners can gain respect from the public they serve.
Economic Development & Communities:
Good-bye, Lone Ranger
--- In this first of a series of column, Jack McCall suggests its time we said good-bye to the Lone Ranger in looking for solutions to local economic development problems.
Looking Around:
Design Matters
--- Good design can mean more jobs, more tourists, and increased property values, argues Ed McMahon in his introductory Looking Around column.
The Planning Commission At Work:
Putting Vision In Our Plan -- Part I
download also includes Part II
--- Mike Chandler explains how "visioning" can be used by planning commissions, in part I of a two-part series.
Talking Transportation:
The Residential Street -- Part II
download also includes Parts I & III
--- Greg Dale & Jennifer Sharn continue their three-part series on residential streets by looking at curves and cul-de-sacs.
Insights:
The Three Myths of Growth
by Eben Fodor
--- Oregon planning consultant Eben Fodor offers a critical look at growth.
Insights:
Planners on the Information Highway
by Charles Graves III
--- With the rapid development of the "information highway," Baltimore City Planning Director Charles Graves says planners should be raising some important questions.
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