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the New American Village
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The New American Village blog examines how political, social, environmental, and economic issues impact the way we live and the way we build. James Ray Polk, Architect and Neighborhood Planner leads the discussion.
Recent Posts
Where\'s Our Modern Day CCC?
This week's newspaper column. Read it in the Hattiesburg American. Over the years, I, along with millions of fellow Americans, have enjoyed the fruits of an initiative born the better part of a century ago. In 1933, the United States was ...
CCC Cabins
Holmes County State Park in Mississippi is just one of the many sites where the Civilian Conservation Corps built recreational cabins. I've vacationed in this park 4 or 5 times, and although newer cabins have been constructed around the corner, I al...
CCC Revisited
As the Great Depression shook the economic foundation of the United States, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated a federal stimulus program called the Civilian Conservation Corps better known as, simply, the CCC. The CCC gave unemployed me...
Expressions of Thanksgiving
This week's newspaper column. Read it in the Hattiesburg American.Thanksgiving, traditionally, came into being as a special time set aside each year dedicated to offering up appreciation for the bounty of the summer harvest. The modern interpretatio...
Why Architecture Matters
Here's an interesting and infomative interview (by NPR's On Point host Tom Ashbrook) of New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger on his latest book - Why Architecture Matters. Great American Architect Richard Meier joins in as well.Goldbe...
American Roadways: Dangerous by Design
In 2008 alone, over 70,000 pedestrians in the United States suffered injury in an accident involving motor vehicles. And over the past 15 years, 76,000 pedestrians have been killed on American roadways; that's the equivalent of twenty-five 911 terro...
