by laurelparkmanagement | Jul 27, 2011 | Bike from Laurel Park, Culture, Downtown Sarasota, Sustainable Sarasota, Uncategorized, Walk from Laurel Park
{image source} NEW YORK (AP) — America’s cities are beginning to grapple with a fact of life: People are getting old, fast, and they’re doing it in communities designed for the sprightly. To envision how this silver tsunami will challenge a youth-oriented...
by laurelparkmanagement | Jul 20, 2011 | Culture, Education
Following up on the last post, the one about cities adopting a set of guiding principles, we’d also like to share this video from TEDtalks by Damon Horowitz. The entire talk is just over 15 minutes, and is well worth watching. Horowitz, a Silicon Valley...
by laurelparkmanagement | Jul 16, 2011 | Education, Uncategorized
{image source} A friend sent me a link the other day to an article about the Dutch city Almere, a new city built on reclaimed land near Amsterdam. I’d read about Almere—a fascinating place from an urban planning and development point of view—before, but now I...