Local Edge City Kentlands, 1988/1990

Containers:

Box 2, Folder 3

Scope and content:

Publicity about the planned community Kentlands in Gaithersburg, MD and Belmont in Loudoun County, VA. Material includes seven articles from the Gaithersburg Gazette "Planned Kentlands development: new ideas for a community" by Deidre Cryor, "Kentlands work session set Oct. 26" by David Lim, "Fiscal realities of Kentlands discussed" by David Lim, "'Cultural campus' evolves at charrette" by David Lim, "Need for more parking at Kentlands debated" by David Lim, "A new way of planning", and "Residents affirm zoning limitation to Alfandre" by Healan Barrow, a Saturday Post-Courier article "Old Charleston inspires new communities" by J. Dean Foster, three Loudoun Times-Mirror articles "Village idea gains" by Michael C. Mahoney, "Planning consultant talks to board about 'vision'" by Otto Mayr, and "Board adopts Belmont concept", three Patuxent Publishing Company Free-Press articles "Residents scrutinize final design charrette" by Joel Davis, "Charrette debate extended by design" by Jim Joyner and "Stranger in Sandy Spring" by Jim Joyner and Joel Davis, a Daily Record article "Alfandre Palns Massive 19th Century Village" by Alexander Montague, a Potomac Almanac article "Developing 'Small-town' Air" by Judy Myers, three Gaithersburg Express articles "Alfandre wants public at Kentlands" by Mary Beth Smith, "What's in Kentlands' street name?" by Kenneth J. Rabben, "What is a charrette?" by Kenneth J. Rabben, and "Kentlands to focus on cultural heritage" by Kenneth J. Rabben, two Baltimore Sun articles "A New Traditionalism" by David Rosenthal and Edward Gunts and "They're Building Yesterday's Town for Today's Families" by Edward Gunts, a Washington Business Journal article "Architect leads push to turn back design" by Michael Cody, four Washington Post articles "Deigning Tomorrow's Community in a Week" by Cornelius F. Foote Jr., "Harking Back to Our Town" by Benjamin Forgey, "Designers Revive the Old With 'New Traditional Towns'" by Roger K. Lewis and "When Working by Committee Isn't All Bad" by Roger K. Lewis, two New York Times articles "In Seven Days, Designing a New Traditional Town" by Patricia Leigh Brown and "A Big Small Town Getting Under Way" by Alex Montague, a San Francisco Examiner article "Planning a city fit for human habitation" by Gary Delshohn, a Montgomery Journal article "Birth of An American Town" by Matt Hamblen, the January 1990 issue of Builder magazine, a Warfield's article "What Can Be Done To Save the Suburbs?" by Ralph Bennett, a Metropolitan Home Design article "The New Town Planners" by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a People magazine article "Banishing Cookie-Cutter 'Burbs", two Urban Land Institute publications about development trends and Kentlands, a Newsweek article "The House of the Future" by Jerry Adler, a U.S. News and World Report article "The Quest for Community" by Amy Saltzman and the April 1990 issue of Warfiled's Business Monthly.

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