The purpose was to blur socioeconomic lines and for convenience. There were/are strict property codes. Planting a tree needs permission. After Rouse passed, whoever took over had visions of turning it into more of a city center.
While I'd never live IN Columbia itself, they had an interesting concept and it was the first of its kind.
I grew up just outside of it where we had the freedom to plant whatever trees we wanted, not need permission to have a massive garden, etc.
(He also developed a marketplace in Boston. Other examples of Rouse Company “festival marketplace” developments include South Street Seaport in New York City, The Gallery at Market East, in Philadelphia, Harborplace in Baltimore, St. Louis Union Station in St. Louis, Downtown Portland's Pioneer Place, and the Riverwalk Marketplace of New Orleans. The early festival marketplaces like Faneuil Hall and Harborplace led TIME magazine to dub Rouse “the man who made cities fun again.”)
That's my blab for the day.
They want to take your car away.
Sounds like a Fallout Vault.
Holly, you may want to consider that the planned city concept began in this country with Greenbelt, Maryland. This was a planned city concept of the Franklin Roosevelt Administration. It was set up on a Co-Op basis and still chugs along today.
🙋What part oytside Columbia?
me- ellicott city, grad mt hebron ‘72
I lived near Columbia in the 70’s. It was a nice place and interesting, sort of like the 70’s movies of a future that wasn’t Soylent Green, but an antiseptic society. As it got bigger it just became another suburb but with the original features still there like the ruins of an ancient civilization.