Designing Local: Revealing Our Truest Communities

Full Description: We work too hard as urban planners and designers to settle for bland, mediocre places. Our work should be inspiring and creative, but established practices have us copying plans and stamping out versions of whatever's popular at the time. Our current culture wastes too much time worshipping other communities and trying to get what they have. Why do we plan the same ideas and implement them on the ground—together—when this practice renders our places invisible in the process? It...