Recently I began reading Doug Farr’s book Sustainable Urbanism, Urban Design with Nature (Pub. John Wiley & Sons, © 2008 Farr Associates). I first met Doug in while working for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and having been introduced by my boss at the time, Mike Jackson, when we visited his office in the historic [...]

Last Wednesday’s (9.24.08) presentation at Sustainable Springfield’s monthly meeting featured a power point along with material samples for Erin’s Pavilion, now under construction. The site is the new Southwind Park located on South Second Street, just south of I-72, and is being built and maintained by the Springfield Park District.
David McDow, an architect from Walton & Associates aptly presented the [...]