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The Value of Place

Following are some suggestions for how community builders (citizens, council members, planning staff, land owners, builders, architects, landscape architects, and businesses) in the Central Valley can pay attention to the qualities of the places they inhabit.

Re-introduce people to their town. Reawaken interest and understanding. Invest fresh vitality and develop with consistency.

Provide choices. Work in ways that open rather than preclude choices.

 

Show natural pattersn in town life. Make the natural processes that underlie all settlements more evident through planning, landscape and architecture.

Occupy the existing structure. Fully reoccupy the existing structure of the city rather than reach into agricultural land. This can conserve resources.

Explore new forms of public investment and development. Open the way to more flexible and creative thinking about how to make the most of existing structures with ingenious new patterns of investment and development.