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In the end who knows where love can only flow...Keep on Rockin the House brother Mark, we've got your back down here on Earth.
Mark McClellan died Sunday December 20, and there will be a memorial service at the UU Church, 1 January, 1PM.
I'm not going to try to write some kind of eulogy here. I've been trying to keep a log of my thoughts about him, the twenty years I knew him, and the family, and hopefully I can do him some verbal justice at some point, though it seems pretty empty and futile, when I am still in such disbelief. If you are a reader of this site, and you have memories, maybe we can try to do a community scrapbook? Anyway, there really isn't anything I can say, yet. Just wanted to spread the information about the service.
We had 114 people attend the workshop on Smartcode!! Thank you!
Given by Robert Orr, FAIA, 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Rockland City Hall
Sponsored by the Rockland Comprehensive Panning Commission
As the failures of uncontrolled sprawl development are becoming more clear, more and more Americans are seeking a return to an in-town lifestyle, one designed for pedestrians and not automobiles. To safely walk to neighborhood businesses for goods and services is a key component in attracting these returning village dwellers, but allowing for such development is often at odds with current zoning practices.
Robert Orr will discuss ways in which communities can, by rethinking traditional approaches to zoning, provide a framework that encourages more mixed-use development oriented to foot traffic, which enhances a neighborhood's quality of life. His presentation will include examples of designs to be avoided as well as emulated, and also how New Urbanism can be adapted to existing cities and towns.
Robert Orr FAIA is an award-winning architect, Smart Growth , planner and one of the originators of New Urbanism, which aims to create walkable, mixed-use, neighborhoods. His collaboration with Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk at Seaside, Florida in 1982 was honored by Time Magazine as "...the most astonishing design achievement of its era and one might hope the most influential." A Founder of the Seaside Institute, a think-tank on community design, Robert also serves on the Board of the New Haven Town Green Special Services District, Liberty Community Services (providing housing for homeless with AIDS), 1000 Friends of Connecticut, the Vestry of Trinity Church on the Green and many other vision-based organizations in Florida, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut. He received his MArch from Yale and his BA from the University of Vermont. A practitioner, professor, lecturer, and writer, Robert lives with his wife and four children in New Haven, Connecticut. More info contactsmartgrowthrockland@hotmail.com