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October is National Community Planning Month
October has been designated as National Community Planning Month by the American Planning Association in an effort to recognize the positive impacts that planners and planning have on America's communities. Arlington has become known for our quality planning and is widely recognized as a pioneer in Smart Growth. Last year at this time we were celebrating our designation by APA as one of America’s Great Places for our Great Streets: Wilson and Clarendon Boulevards. This year, we celebrate with a list of planning books and two special events.
Following on the heels of our list of beach reading for economists is AED’s compilation of a collection of favorite planning books (audio and visual Flash presentation). Arlington Libraries has most of these in their collection, so curl up with a good book and think “planning.”
The Arlington County Department of Libraries is co-sponsoring with AED two special events to observe National Community Planning Month. Both events will take place in the Main Auditorium at the Central Library.
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Screening of a new film on the life and work of Daniel Burnham – Make No Little Plans. Burnham, with his partner John Root, built some of the first skyscrapers in the world including such landmarks as the Rookery and Monadnock Buildings in Chicago. His later firm, D.H. Burnham and Company, would be known for such landmarks as the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington, DC. In 1893, Burnham directed construction of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago that helped inspire the City Beautiful Movement in towns and cities across the country.
He subsequently developed plans for major cities in America and abroad including Washington DC, San Francisco, Cleveland and Manila and Baguio City in the Philippines. The 1909 Plan of Chicago co-authored by architect Edward Bennett is considered his masterwork. Classically inspired and often monumental in scale, his work sought to reconcile things often thought opposite: the practical and the ideal, business and art, and capitalism and democracy. At the center of it all was the idea of a vibrant urban community.
This will be the first Washington area screening of the film.
Tuesday October 27, 2009 at 7 p.m.
A discussion of the works and the life of Dr. Homer Hoyt with Dr. Terry Holzheimer, Director of Arlington Economic Development and Michael Hoyt, the son of Homer Hoyt. Dr. Hoyt’s contributions to planning and real estate analysis are major and multiple. He developed economic base theory as the principal explanation for regional economic growth. He also introduced Sector Theory relating to the evolution of the form of cities. He then later developed the methodology still used today for residential and commercial market analysis. Dr. Hoyt worked with the Federal Housing Administration and with regional planning agencies in Chicago and New York.
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