Find examples (good and bad) of plans and projects that are being or have been built. Historic Preservation@ (21) 1. Chicago Metropolis 2020 - Information about an organized effort to ensure the preeminence of the Chicago Metropolis in the 21st century. Includes an overview of the project, reports, contact information, and mailing list. 2. Dynamic City Foundation - Conducts research on the rapid urbanization of China. Summary, news, documents, and project timeline. 3. Life in the Model City - Personal stories about urban renewal in New Haven, Connecticut in the 1950s and 1960s. 4. Pullman Historic District - Former industrial town now a neighborhood of Chicago. Events and program calendars, location map, and foundation activities. 5. Radburn - New town in Fairlawn, New Jersey designed in 1929. 6. Seaside Florida - New urbanist coastal beach town. Accommodations, entertainment, restaurants, street map, and education. 7. The Washington, DC Comprehensive Plan - Information on the planning process, a calendar of meetings and events, a library of documents, and a community feedback program. 8. Urban Ways - Includes a brief description of a method of providing more vegetation in high-density city centers. 9. Victory City - A modernist utopian design for a city of the future. 10. Virtual Greenbelt - Images, interviews and other materials relating to Greenbelt, Maryland, a New Deal-era planned community in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. 11. Architekturgestalten.info - Designs by Tim Ahrens and Anne Brecker. 12. Arcosanti - An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, workshops, events, images, visitor information. 13. Auroville Center for Urban Research - Presents workshops, studies, and investigations with practical implementations at the emerging city of Auroville, India. 14. Baycity Revival Redevelopment Plan - A redevelopment proposal for the waterfront of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 15. Chandigarh - Information about the planned city in India designed by Le Corbusier. 16. Charlestown at Buildout - Modeling Development and Conservation - Reports and maps from university thesis project to study growth in an area undergoing rapid residential development, and help formulate policies for growth management. Focus is the town of Charlestown in southern Rhode Island, USA. 17. Common Ground - Community Mapping Project - Victoria, British Columbia-based organization using mapping as a tool to get citizens involved in planning. 18. Disney's Celebration - Essays, links, and photos about the Florida planned community developed by the Walt Disney Corporation. 19. Dos Lagos - An introduction to the mixed use planned community in the City of Corona, California. Gives visitors background and up to date information about the progress of the project. 20. Harmony - A residential and retirement urban design community situated between Charleston and Myrtle Beach SC near historic Georgetown, South Carolina. 21. Interactionfield - Public Space in the Digital Age - Analysis and categorization of interactive media and public art projects that contribute to the rediscovery and revitalization of urban public spaces. 22. Kakigawa - Pools of Meaning - A project by Mirjam Struppek and Arika Adachi based on an entry in the competition "Semiotic Fields and Attractors: the rediscovery of the Kaki River in Nagaoka, Japan." 23. Letchworthgc.com - Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation provides news and information about the world's first garden city. Includes a history of its development and guide. 24. Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb - Information, analysis, and photographs of this archetypal postwar American suburb. 25. Limiting Urban Futures - An attack on the future-scenario style of urban planning. In urban futures scenarios, the range of "acceptable" future cities is made visible. The Amsterdam (Netherlands) study TVA is used as an example of how such studies limit urban futures. 26. New Songdo City - Details about the large master planned city under development near Seoul, South Korea. 27. NodeWorks Encyclopedia: New town - History and profiles of planned cities in publicly editable encyclopedia. 28. Orenco Station - Promotional information about planned community in the Portland, Oregon, area. Named "America's Community of the Year" in 1998 by the National Association of Home Builders, and considered a good example of "new urbanism." 29. Phalen Corridor Initiative - A public-private partnership redeveloping a rail corridor in Saint Paul, Minnesota's East Side. 30. Planning the Gateway - Information system for projects of regional development, spatial planning, traffic management, and cross-border cooperation in the Austrian-Czech-Slovak-Hungarian border region. 31. Proyecto Cities - Collective effort, focusing on some 20 cities located in five continents, to identify the competitive advantages of each, and to present the principal urban innovations that they are developing, especially those that impact on the physical form of the city and the structure of the metropolitan region. 32. Raploch Urban Regeneration Company - One of three Scottish Executive funded Pathfinder URCs, implementing a plan to transform the physical appearance of the community. 33. Redfern Waterloo Partnership Project - A plan focusing on issues in the Redfern Waterloo areas of New South Wales, including redevelopment opportunities, community safety, and social programs. 34. Scottish Borders New Ways - A partnership between public and private sector agencies who affect the future of the Scottish Borders. Encourages organizational cooperation and community development. 35. Strategic Planning Action Network (SPAN) - Regional planning effort involving partners from four regions in four European Union member states. A "North-West Europe" Interreg III B inter-regional cooperation project. [in French and English] 36. The Irvine Company - Master plan, guiding principles, and conservation goals for development of the Irvine Ranch in Orange County, California. 37. Urban Development of Wolfsburg - The City of Wolfsburg in Germany is a typical example of planned urban development. Four different development stages are illustrated. 38. Urban Pioneers - Presents research on urban revitalization in Berlin and Sao Paulo through writing, photographs, maps, and diagrams. 39. Urban Revitalization Concept - Overview of the Jackson Place Redevelopment Plan in Richmond, Virginia. 40. Waterfront Edinburgh Limited - A partnership between The City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian working to regenerate 140 hectares of brownfield land in north Edinburgh on the shores of the Firth of Forth.

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