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Smart Growth for Small Towns: The Bypass vs. Main Street

Posted by philhardwick on March 25, 2008

In this Smart Growth Speaker Series speech at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. I discuss the overlapping goals of the Main Street program and smart growth principles, and, in particular, the efforts to grow and maintain viable small-town downtowns in the age of the bypass.

You can listen to it using Realplayer by clicking here or going to this link:

http://www.smartgrowth.org/audio/050105-philhardwick.ram

One Response to “Smart Growth for Small Towns: The Bypass vs. Main Street”

  1. smallwanderer Says:

    Hi Phil. We have a project underway that aims at helping downtowns of small towns by linking them together into a network, then promoting that network to tourists seeking small towns experiences. It’s called smallwander.com.

    All the best,

    JD

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