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Easton Point After more than a semester of research, site visits, studio design work, and critiques; a conceptual site plan has been developed for the Easton Point Park. The summary of this project’s process, including the five student designs, are being compiled and edited into a project booklet. Once the booklet is published, it willContinue Reading

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ESLC Announces 13th Annual Planning Conference

  The Eastern Shore Land Conservancy announces our 13th Annual Planning Conference, to be hosted Friday, June 8, 2012, at the Tidewater Inn in Easton, Maryland. The conference will draw together community leaders, elected officials, planners, designers, entrepreneurs and farmers from around the region to discuss and envision the economic landscape of the Eastern Shore, DelmarvaContinue Reading

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Morning Cup of Planning: Friday, January 20th

As we bring the week to a close, this Friday’s Morning Cup of Planning began with another article by Kaid Benfield over at Switchboard. Here he discusses a study that observed walking distances of residents in older residential neighborhoods whose commercial districts were located at the core compared to those living in suburban developments with commercial services located alongContinue Reading

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Friendship Hall Design Review & Community Discussion

Please Join us Tomorrow! What: We encourage community members of all ages to enjoy light refreshments and be a part of the conversation as landscape architecture students from Philadelphia University present their final design concepts for the 12 acres of open green space that surrounds Friendship Hall in East New Market. When: 2:00pm Saturday, JanuaryContinue Reading

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Morning Cup of Planning: Tuesday, January 17th

We begin this week’s Morning Cup of Planning in recognition of yesterday’s Martin Luther King Day with a post from grist portraying Dr. King as an environmentalist today. It also goes into discussing a small environmental campaign called Black + White = Green surrounding the troubled Baltimore neighborhood around Johns Hopkins. Next we take youContinue Reading

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