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Pride and Placemaking
If the Fourth of July were a test about place-making, American communities would pass with flying colors, so to speak.
When it comes to fireworks and gathering to watch them while grilling meat and having a drink, no suburb is too suburban and no town too small to have a space that serves as common ground for this display of local and national pride. Those who are lucky enough to have a Main Street in their midst can even |
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throw in a real Independence Day parade as a plus.
No disruptive technology - not radio, television, the internet, or online social networks - has changed that, and neither did the Great Recession. Americans love their fireworks and grilled burgers and hotdogs in towns big and small all across this great nation; they find places to celebrate the nation's birth in metropolitan and rural towns alike, incorporated or not.
This is not a small feat since it takes considerable space to separate the spectators from the fireworks technicians, have good
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Klaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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