I Heart Urban Planning
Last night, in a spacious room at the Santa Fe Public Schools Admin Center, a bow-tied and dapper Steven Bingler expounded on the virtues of holistic urban planning, walkability, sustainability, the future—and how it all comes back to Santa Fe.
For the uninitiated, Bingler is something of an urban planning bigwig: He’s the founder of Concordia, a self-described “community-based planning and design team,” and has had a big role in the post-Katrina redevelopment of New Orleans, where he lives.
Throughout an exhaustive Powerpoint presentation and a lengthy Q&A with the audience (around 40 people, all well-versed in education issues), Bingler stuck to a couple of recurring themes: “nexus,” his six-legged concept for urban redevelopment (it incorporates educational, social, economic, cultural, physical and organizational factors into the planning process) and the hurricane. Continue reading »
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