Visions for a Sustainable City: Owings Mills, MD

Notes

1. Garreau, Joel; Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, New York: Doubleday, 1991, p. 4 - 5 Back
2. Garreau; op. cit., p. 5 Back
3. Calthorpe, Peter; The Next American Metropolis, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993 Back
4. The general guidelines of our proposals will be derived from the Baltimore County Master Plan 1989-2000, Baltimore Co., MD: Department of Planning and Zoning, which designated Owings Mills as one of the major urban growth centers in the county. Back
5. Design workshops or "charrettes", which bring together a diverse group for intensive working sessions, are a methodology that have grown increasingly widespread in recent design practice. They have proved to be extremely valuable in rapidly generating innovative ideas while simultaneously considering a wide diversity of opinions and positions. They are now commonly sponsored by organizations ranging from the Federal Government (both the GSA and the NEA) to local community groups. Back