Re-defining rural community spatially separated neighborhoods.
2010-08
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Re-defining rural community spatially separated neighborhoods.
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Frost is small agricultural community in rural southern Minnesota that developed
at the turn of the 20th century. In its prime it had a flourishing
Main Street with all of the necessities that were required to sustain a small
community. There were grocers, hardware stores, barbers, cafes, churches
and schools. Today most of those things are gone. Buildings sit empty and
lots sit vacant. There are communities like Frost all across the country who
have been watching a slow and continuous migration take place over the
last few decades. Young people have been leaving the country for opportunities
in urban areas. Frost is important because it is emblematic of thousands
of other small cities and towns suffering from the effects of this rural
migration.
The topic of “rural community” is generating a great deal of discussion today
amongst policy makers, sociologists, planners and economists. The
debate is focused around how rural communities are defined in terms of
today’s changing social and economic pressures. Small towns that were
once individual self sustaining communities today are reliant on larger cities
within their surrounding area for the goods and services that are a part
of daily life. Some people suggest that there is no role for a small town like
Frost in this evolution. I believe there is and I believe there is a role that
designers can play in the planning and design of a rural community. I am
interested in this topic because this is a part of me; it is where I am from.
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University of Minnesota M. Arch. thesis. August 2010. Major: Architecture. Advisor: J. Stephen Weeks. 1 computer file (PDF); iii, 35 pages, appendices p. 21-25. Ill. (some col.) plans.
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Schonborn, Bradley Michael. (2010). Re-defining rural community spatially separated neighborhoods.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/102459.
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