SCW IX
SmartCode Workshop Miami is announced for November 8-10, 2007.
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Post Falls Hopes to Implement the SmartCode by Summer
Journal of Business, April 5, 2007
Collin Coles, Post Falls senior city planner, "SmartCode is intended to create neighborhoods with residential and commercial uses intermixed. Form-based zoning reduces the number of trips people need to make out of their neighborhoods for basic commodities. It also promotes after-hours activity that helps neighborhood business survive."
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Lawrence, Kansas Drafts a SmartCode
Lawrence Journal, January 29, 2007
"You will not find another main street that works better than Lawrence’s does," Susan Henderson, the group’s project principal. "If we can get the new development in this city to look like its older development, we will be golden."
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Gulfport SmartCode Plan Hammered Out
The Sun Herald, November 5, 2006
Mayor Brent Warr says building within SmartCode rules is "faster, more profitable and better looking," and hopes for the Gulfport, Mississippi, SmartCode to be adopted by the council before the end of the year.
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Post Falls Considers SmartCode
Spokesman Review, October 31, 2006
Idaho city calls for neighborhoods with commercial centers, and places where people can live, work and recreate, as an option to the typical subdivision with its cul-de-sacs, street-facing garages and homes far from shopping and services.
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Designed to Fight Sprawl
Omaha World Herald, September 1, 2006
Herb Freeman and PlaceMakers envision a neighborhood northwest of Omaha that has a town center, homes with porches out front and garages to the rear, narrow streets, and places to work, play and shop within a five-minute walk.
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Susan Henderson
Albuquerque Magazine, July 2006
Helping communities across the South rebuild after recent devastating hurricanes, Susan headed up the architectural team in the largest planning effort in US history. Now she's using her ideas to help the Southwest.
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CNU XIV
June 1-4, 2006
PlaceMakers, Nathan Norris, Susan Henderson, and Hazel Borys, were among the speakers at the Congress of New Urbanism in Providence. PlaceMaker Scott Doyon directs the reporting on The Daily NUws.
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Restoring Early County
Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 21, 2006
The Rice Foundation sponsors an ambitious 50-year growth plan to help Blakely and Early County regain their economic footing in the 21st century while retaining the area's rural character.
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Replacing lost housing is off to a slow start
USA Today, April 17, 2006
PlaceMaker, Susan Henderson, is part of team of designers for Katrina Cottage II.
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The Man With the Plan: New Urbanist Leader Duany Forges Ahead With His Ideas For Rebuilding New Orleans
Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2006
PlaceMaker, Susan Henderson, participated in the Gentilly Charrette.
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Big Changes On The Way For Lake Charles?
KPLCTV.com, February 8, 2006
PlaceMakers Director of Design, Susan Henderson, guides several communities in hurricane impact areas of Louisiana.
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