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Touring Eugene O'neill's New London was created as part of Eugene O'neill's New London:The Influence of Time & Place a millennial celebration and exploration of Eugene O'neill and New London County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1885-1915) sponsored by the Arts Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut and Connecticut College.28 pages with black/white photographs.Like New. ... Read more

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It is no longer just conservative forces but mainstream American culture that opposes and ignores traditional planning formats if judged by action, not word. At its core, the current model has failed because it lacks social resonance and political acceptance within the society, and because interest-group politics enable multiple points of influence. If true land-use reform is to be achieved it must come from some other experimental path.This book suggests, among other things, that the future of American planning must shift in both sector orientation and approach if it is to regain societal relevance. It was in Oregon that I recognized the ethical dilemma of American planning practice and the limited effectiveness of many of our basic tools in a society steeped in competitive individualism.Cultural-Based Incentive Planning was specifically created to reduce the current contentiousness between Americas culture of competitive individualism and plannings egalitarian objectives. These principles work without question in applications from political campaigns to improving safety behavior in the workplace. Our challenge is to best apply these concepts and techniques to planning practice.Land planning in America, both town and county, is arguably the only significant category of environmental management in which major advancements in a system-wide context have not been achieved in the past 35 years.The concept of sustainability in planning is more than creating and maintaining a natural ecosystem, human environment, and supporting economy in balance. It is also inherently tied to social validity and sustained political consensus. One has difficulty conceiving how to achieve sustainability without accommodating these two critical elements in a freewheeling, market-based democracy like the United States.In the final analysis, if you believe in the concept of sustainability, planning programs must have both broad social validity and political acceptance to be effective. ... Read more

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What is Prefurbia? This book is not another critique of sprawling American suburban lifestyles in auto-centric neighborhoods. It is not an analysis of missing cultural resources that could place suburbs on par with metropolitan cities; nor is it an attempt to social engineer through neighborhood design (however, good design can positively affect society). This is not another anti-sprawl book, nor is it a universal solution.Instead, this book acknowledges the needs and desires of the space-seeking home buying market (80% of the U.S. market) and offers exciting affordable-to-build neighborhood solutions that beautify and enhance suburban quality of life. It presents refreshing new design examples that result in distinguishable, warm, connected, spacious neighborhoods that actually reduce sprawl!The term Suburbia comes from the Latin Suburbium, Sub, below the Urbis, city which, in Roman days described dwellers who lived outside (below) the protection of the city fortress walls. The first modern notion of suburbia, the quiet, unspoiled outskirts as a retreat for the wealthy urbanite is today defined by Oxford University Press as ..communities located at the edge of the city and developed at low rates of housing per hectare. The provision of open space is a characteristic feature. However, many of todays suburbs are not quite the retreat once imagined, nor do they contain the natural spaces that once formed their characterin fact, theyve become substandard, and the causal factors are targeted herein.Instead of a sub or below way of life, this book attempts to merge consumer lifestyle preferences with sound economics and good stewardship of the environmentresulting in communities that offer a new preferred suburban standard, thus Prefurbia more accurately describes this new concept. While we include real solutions, this book is only meant to be a starting point. Like a land surveyor who describes every tract of land from a beginning point as the Point of Beginning, an anchor point that defines the tract of land, think of this book as the Point of Beginning for a new way to design, develop, regulate, and build the communities that continue to define the attainment of the America dream. A major problem typical with the suburban subdivisions of the 1950s and 60s is the featureless subdivisions that were designed to accommodate an automobile-reliant lifestyle, devoid of destination walks to scenic natural preserves or convenience retail. The biggest problem, though, is that this 50-year old model still represents a clear image of todays suburban landscape! ... Read more