https://land8.com/members/barrywatkins/activity/ Activity feed for Barry Watkins. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:43:16 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b6b82062ff720305c5ea8d252a329218 https://land8.com/forums/topic/different-take-on-planningsmart-growth/#post-169230 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:10:02 +0000 I don’t think Rybczynski is saying “government bad”, but that the ideal is acheived when the free market is freed up by government. I think we need to be cautious at every turn when we’re talking about the future of our cities being directed by a central national (US) government agency. Local control is imperitive and local designers need to be…[Read more]

]]> 0 2898f207ac274d481559094b98a85d30 https://land8.com/forums/topic/different-take-on-planningsmart-growth/page/2/#post-169243 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:13:08 +0000 Rybczynski’s comments are great arguments for code reform. Government should set the pace via coding that allows for developers to fill in the details via small incremental changes over time. Centralized control and big government projects are something Americans decry and for good reason. To be responsible citizens we ought to be designing places…[Read more]

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