SMALL TOWN DESIGN
Conservation and
development can go head-to-head in rural America. A new publication
describes a two-year project in which landscape architects worked
with rural communities to combine the two. The National Endowment
for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural
Resources Conservation Service sponsored the arrangement, which
placed a landscape architect in each of three rural towns. In the
West, the town picked was Moab, Utah; there the local team that
emerged developed a flood control project that increased wildlife
habitat and created a recreational trail system as well. For a free
copy of the 40-page report, Managing Change in Rural Communities:
The Role of Planning and Design, call the Soil and Water
Conservation Society at
800/THE-SOIL.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Small town design.
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