Tag Archive | "dream city"
Colorado Springs: The entitlement city
Remember the “6035” project? Remember “Dream City”? And whatever happened to those hundreds of fresh-faced community leaders that the Colorado Springs Leadership Institute has trained, graduated and sent on their way during the last decade? I have good news for you! Dream City is alive, sort of, kept on life support by the occasional article [...]
Continue reading...City still fighting ‘new brutalism’
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Utopia or dystopia? What does the future hold for our city? How can we, individually and collectively, shape this community? In endeavors such as Dream City, the 6035 project, and a dozen predecessors, we’ve asked ourselves the same question: how do cities thrive? Forty-eight years ago, Jane Jacobs published “The Death and Life of Great [...]
Continue reading...Livin’ the dream (city)
Monday, July 20, 2009
After months of hype and hundreds of column inches of high-minded rhetoric, the Gazette’s ‘Dream City’ project culminated with a much-touted meeting at Coronado High School. Three hundred people showed up – an impressive turnout for an earnest few hours of community-minded heavy liftin’, especially on a radiant Saturday morning. I didn’t go – too [...]
Continue reading...The Pikes Peak region needs a slogan
Friday, June 19, 2009
The estimable folks who brought us the “Dream City” project are searching for a slogan. Appealing to the public, they wrote that “The Pikes Peak region needs a slogan, words that suggest all the great reasons to visit or live here. As part of the community engagement project Dream City: Vision 2020, we’re collecting your [...]
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Monday, January 25, 2010
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