FORUM Magazine Spring 2008
FINDING COMMUNITY IN A CROWD
A half-century of unprecedented population growth has left Florida with massive housing tracts, complex highway systems, and ubiquitous strip malls. How can people connect with each other in a car-oriented lifestyle?
Some highlights:
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Seeking a Sense of Community: Searching for “third places”
By Ray Oldenburg, sociology professor emeritus, University of West Florida
Place Making: Creating walkable, human-scale areas
By Charles C. Bohl, director, Knight Program in Community Building, University of Miami School of Architecture
Discovering a City’s Soul: St. Augustine’s design for living
By Elsbeth Gordon, author of Florida’s Colonial Architectural Heritage
The Town that Nurtured Zora: Forging the spirit of a trailblazer
By Valerie Boyd, author of Wrapped in Rainbows
Paintings of 1940s Eatonville
By Jules André Smith
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