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The Biophilic Cities Project and the Urban Imagination
From the point of view of the citizen, wilderness, however beautifully it is ordered in an ecological sense, represents a chaotic and destructive force. It is the job of the city to organize and...
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RICHMOND'S BALLPARK CONTROVERSY: PLANNING FOR THE MARKET SQUARE IN SHOCKOE...
Richard Worsham, Proposed First Market fountain, thesis, Notre Dame, 2011. "Even as places like Austin and Seattle are thriving, much of the country is failing to adapt to the demands of the creative...
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MAPPING FIRST (SEVENTEENTH STREET) MARKET SQUARE IN SHOCKOE BOTTOM
These maps showing the development of the Seventeenth Street Market over time were prepared at StudioAmmons by Gibson Worsham and Dolly Holmes.
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STUDIOAMMONS: A PROPOSAL FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THE FIRST MARKET SQUARE
StudioAmmons submitted a proposal over a year ago for the redesign of the historic Seventeenth Street or First Market Square in Shockoe Bottom. The members of Urbanismo were closely involved in the...
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THE MATRIX ROUTE IN RICHMOND
Main Street looking West in 1865 [LOC] showing early nineteenth-century one-, two-, and three-story brick basic buildings in the process of replacement by four-and five-story commercialblocks and...
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URBS IN RUS: COURTHOUSE SQUARES IN VIRGINIA
Hanover County Courthouse of c 1740 (VDHR], where the arcaded piazza, at grade, fronts a raised courthouse interior. In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginia, the civic architecture built in the...
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CEREMONIAL ROUTES: A HISTORY OF CIVIC RITUAL IN RICHMOND
A triumphal arch constructed as a temporary entry gateway to the massive StreetCarnival held on Broad Street in 1900. The ritual aspects of Richmond's spatial organization were embodied in the regular...
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GOOD AND BAD GOVERNMENT
"Peace" from the Allegory of Good GovernmentUrbanismo spends a lot of time making parallels between traditional American urbanism and old-world cities in Italy and England. Martha Banta, in her book...
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PUBLIC ART AND COMMUNITY MEMORY: RICHMOND'S MAGGIE LENA WALKER
In the following essay, we will attempt to trace the history and character of monument-making in Richmond and how it might affect the proposed memorial to Maggie L. Walker, one of the city's great...
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RESUSCITATING URBAN FORMS AT HISTORIC NAUVOO, ILLINOIS
Lewis Henry, Nauvoo, 1854 The city of Nauvoo, Illinois, is one of the most fascinating of the phalanx of utopian communities that appeared in the American Midwest in the period leading up to the Civil...
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TALKEETNA, ALASKA: "WHERE THE ROAD ENDS, LIFE BEGINS"
Talkeetna, Alaska, has been many things: supply station and winter base for prospectors, miners, and trappers in the area around Cache Creek, a port for riverboat shipping, and a railroad depot on the...
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A PROPOSED NEW CITY HALL FOR WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA
A recent design project provided the StudioAmmons design team, of which we are a part, with an unmatched opportunity, not only to make great civic architecture, but to aid in the definition of an...
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Civic Markers II: Monuments as Ordering Elements in the City
"The status of monuments on the cusp of the twenty-first century is double-edged and fraught with an essential tension: outside of those nations with totalitarian pasts, the public and governmental...
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Tyler Potterfield: An Appreciation
Tyler, left, exploring East Main Street for a blog entry in Spring of 2010Here it is time that we should inscribe a terse memorial of our dear friend Tyler Potterfield.It has been barely long enough...
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THE MURALS AT RICHMOND'S HISTORIC BYRD THEATRE
The Byrd Theatre in Richmond, Virginia represents, both architecturally and decoratively, a culmination point in a long tradition, one that stretches back beyond the eighteenth-century origins of...
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JUNKSPACE
But now your own architecture is infected, has become equally smooth, all-inclusive, continuous, warped, busy, atrium-ridden . . ....
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WILLIAM BYRD'S EARLY SETTLEMENT AT SHOCKOES
Overlays showing the routes, growth, form and principal public buildings of eighteenth-century RIchmond [Richard Worsham]. The area of the settlement of Shockoes is shown at the center. The town of...
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City of Monuments, Part I
Photographer Harry Stilson, Soldiers and Sailors Monument beyond [Style Magazine: from Richmond in Sight].Movement through the city of Richmond is punctuated and articulated by an interconnecting...
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Westward Ho: Watson's Tenement, Turpin's Addition, and the Development of...
Watson Ho., Detail of Madison Map of 1818As we have seen elsewhere, the plateau on top of Shockoe Hill was laid out in streets in 1768 and the approximately 90 full squares, each containing four...
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