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Scholarly Research

Ring City: Civic Liberalism and Urban Design

George Thrush
Ring_City_Essay_1995.doc
Published: AppendX magazine, Issue #3, 1996 04/01/1996

What follows is a proposal to use urban design as a catalyst to encourage the development of a denser, more integrated, society. It involves persuading city and regional planners that it is not impossible to conceive of today's complex and diverse American city as a singular whole; and to pursue planning and urban design strategies that support that conception. The proposal is an effort to link a reinvented notion of American liberalism with a re-conceptualization of how our cities are physically structured. It is a renewed attempt to link a progressive political idea to urban design and to resist the country's continuing social, political, and spatial fragmentation.

Research Topics:

• Post-Industrial Landscape and Urbanism
• Public Policy