I'd love to see the effort with a focus on driving more doing as a measure of success. To me, it seems like so many of these efforts (local urbanist/Strong Towns chapters) result in a lot of talking together (which is nice), but not a lot of doing together (which is not so nice). How could you help more people build beautiful spaces and places together vs talking about it?
I especially love the idea of a boarding school academy for citybuilders. Perhaps the College of the Building Arts can add a high school program to pilot.
Many good ideas here, this is so needed. Namely a genuine regionalism ("marinated in the culture, politics, and geography unique to the ---") and moving planning out of social engineering (Marxist or other -isms, to me).
I'm unsure by your stating how planners should focus on the public realm and infrastructure, not dictate what the private sector does ... land use is a part of planning.
As to the south map you're using, state level works from a legal governance standpoint. But having spent time and lived in Texas and Oklahoma, parts of those states don't share "culture, politics, and geography" with much of the south - El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas in an extreme example. Even the 16+ million people living along the I-35 / 44 corridors from San Antonio to Dallas, Okla City, and Tulsa - still different enough. Houston to the east and north, though, fits your similar culture etc.
I'd love to see the effort with a focus on driving more doing as a measure of success. To me, it seems like so many of these efforts (local urbanist/Strong Towns chapters) result in a lot of talking together (which is nice), but not a lot of doing together (which is not so nice). How could you help more people build beautiful spaces and places together vs talking about it?
Exactly. Less talk more do.
Bring back shop class.
Teach kids how to draw.
Teach leadership.
Stop teaching theory exclusively.
Stop telling kids they are elite and will get to tell others to do what they want.
I especially love the idea of a boarding school academy for citybuilders. Perhaps the College of the Building Arts can add a high school program to pilot.
The College of the Building Arts should start a statewide high school academy for citybuilders.
And they should ask the State of South Carolina to underwrite it!
Many good ideas here, this is so needed. Namely a genuine regionalism ("marinated in the culture, politics, and geography unique to the ---") and moving planning out of social engineering (Marxist or other -isms, to me).
I'm unsure by your stating how planners should focus on the public realm and infrastructure, not dictate what the private sector does ... land use is a part of planning.
As to the south map you're using, state level works from a legal governance standpoint. But having spent time and lived in Texas and Oklahoma, parts of those states don't share "culture, politics, and geography" with much of the south - El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas in an extreme example. Even the 16+ million people living along the I-35 / 44 corridors from San Antonio to Dallas, Okla City, and Tulsa - still different enough. Houston to the east and north, though, fits your similar culture etc.
Check this out for the schools portion, Routledge is printing something almost exactly what you're looking for
https://www.routledge.com/Planning-with-Young-People-A-Practical-Guide-to-Youth-Inclusive-Urban-Planning-in-Schools/PintoTaylor/p/book/9781032376837