Urban Design - A Statement

My urban design concept derives from a wish to acknowledge the story of place.

So often land development ignores and overrides the more tender stories of a place.

I seek to draw attention to landforms and the provenance of the land, the memories of earlier times, the association people have of certain places. 

Too often and more commonly now, commercial development bulldozes this tender past, felling cherished vegetation, rerouting drainage from earlier contours found economically inconvenient, erasing a cherished history, and creating a meaningless blank from a once-dear place.

I celebrate recognition of this fragile landlore, and the vanishing settings of our childhoods.