Summary
Sure. In Santa Fe if you say urbanism means good development, you'll face resistance. We don't want to lose our charm. We don't want to be urban.
Yeah. In some cases even less. They'll become obsolete or build a new superstore or follow the next wave. But there is positive change happening there, with big retailers adapting. In Chicago there's a two-story Home Depot with escalators, no surface parking, multiple entries, it's part of the retail street scheme. Other than the sign and the merchandise, it's a department store. Home Depot really wanted to be there, so they figured out how to do it.We're not a snob organization. Fifty percent of Americans shop at high-volume discount stores on a regular basis. If we're not about that, if we think people should only shop at Pottery Barn and Starbucks then we're not about the life that most Americans want. Is a Nordstrom's okay, but there's something wrong with Target? We've had to discipline ourselves to think it through and not be a bunch of yuppies.See the full content of this document
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Sfr Talk with John Norquist; Oh, the Urbanity
SFR: What was the former Mayor of Milwaukee doing in Santa Fe?
John Norquist: Well, I'm now the president of the Congress for New Urbanism and came to speak as part of a symposium on urbanist ideas.Which are what?Basically we're just talking about...See the full content of this document
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