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Posts Tagged ‘al bartlett’

How We Got Here, in Part

How We Got Here, in Part

For newcomers, here is Al Bartlett's account of the citizens' efforts to establish Boulder's first growth boundary, back when Boulder had fewer than 40,000 people. This piece was originally posted to the Blue Line with Al's permission in [...]

Al Bartlett Memorial-Sat. Nov. 2 at 3 p.m.

Al Bartlett Memorial-Sat. Nov. 2 at 3 p.m.

Professor Emeritus Al Bartlett's memorial has been set for 3 p.m. on Sat. Nov. 2nd.  The venue is the Stadium Club, which is on the 5th floor of the Folsom Field football stadium (east side of the stadium). It is open to the public. Watch a [...]

Theory in Practice: PLAN-Boulder County’s Blue Line

Theory in Practice: PLAN-Boulder County’s Blue Line

Editor's note: This article was adapted by the author from a paper written for an urban planning course at Cornell Driven by a localist philosophy of city planning, in 1958 a group of City of Boulder residents initiated an enduring shift in [...]

Coloradan | Open space

Coloradan |  Open space

by Lisa Marshall for the Coloradan In 1951 an idealistic Boulder mother named Arlene Wolfe (MBusEd’68) had an epiphany in a Paris park years before the term “open space” would become ingrained in the local Boulder vernacular.  Read [...]