The NEXT 150: The Future of Our Neighborhoods
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An Introduction and a Farewell
Jeanne S. Mam-Luft, Assoc. AIA, MFA
Mam-Luft introduces this issue on the future of our neighborhoods and says farewell after a year of serving as Director/Editor of Forward.
Feedback
A reader gave us his opinion about the shift from hand drafting to the now ubiquitous CAD system. He is an Architect from Florida, who describes himself as “an older Architect who [was] trained to do everything by hand.”
3 Question Poll: Your Neighborhood’s Density
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Technology: Love it or hate it?
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The Future of Forward
Christina Noble, AIA, LEED AP
Noble—AssociateNews’ current Editor in Chief—will be staying on board with the National Associates Committee’s publications as Director of Forward for 2009. Ms. Noble will bring with her changes to the publication’s format and frequency.
Towards a New Neighborhood
Kevin Storm, AIA, AICP, LEED AP
Storm is an Associate at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, LLP and an alum of the University of Miami and Harvard. Mr. Storm outlines for us what we might hold as paramount when we forge a new model for neighborhoods. He writes, “Even with the current deluge of dire environmental predictions, we must remain optimistic that such a paradigm shift can occur, and that the art of city-making will lead to a truly sustainable form of urbanization.”
The Future of the Neighborhood is in the School
Bukky Akinsanmi, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Akinsanmi, an Intern Architect, Researcher, and LEED AP for SHW Group in Dallas, believes that the key to neighborhood improvement is through neighborhood schools and the act of developing them as a community.
Mud-Flap Solutions To A Roadside Typology: Evaluating SMoCA’s Flip A Strip Design Competition
Aaron Herring, LEED AP
Herring, an Arizona resident and LEED AP, evaluates a contemporary museum’s charge to invoke change through the revamping of less-than-desirable strip malls.
Sustainability, Urbanity, and You: How Millennials Will Change The World (and Architecture)
Patrick Kennedy
Kennedy, a Pennsylvania transplant in Texas, believes that the “Millennial” generation will bring the greatest demands and changes to the fabric of our neighborhoods.
Framework for the Future 2030: A Comprehensive Plan for Newport News, Virginia
Michael S. King, AICP, Manager of Community Planning, Newport News, Virginia
In a case for good planning of neighborhoods, Michael King, Manager of City Planning for Newport News, Virginia, gives designers insight into city managements’ role in city planning.
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