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Building a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania
Review of US Architectural Aspects: Architectural Column by Joel Solkoff with Frankie Rasole, PA, USA
July 31, 2021
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Exclusive: US legislator Glenn Thompson suggests building a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania
?Civics as an art has to do, not with imagining an impossible [utopia] where all is well, but with making the most and best of each and every place, and especially of the city in which we live.?
?Patrick Geddes, father of urban planning
Joel Solkoff?s Column Vol. VII, Number 4..Thursday, July 29, 2021. Rural Williamsport, Pennsylvania, population 28,186. {By contrast, New York City?s population is 8.4 million. Distance between them 192 immeasurable miles). Because of an unexpectedly long June 27th interview with Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, Minority Leader US Agriculture Committee, today?s column now begins a new series for global architects on money and political power.
photograph of Indiana, PA, county seat. With appreciation to the Indiana County PA Visitors Bureau
Today?s column focuses on building 105 plus cities of 100,000 in the US
?What can you buy with a trillion dollars" With $1 trillion, you could buy a very nice apartment for everybody in San Francisco’s (population close to a million). Or you can think of it as a thousand billion. For $1 billion you could buy the Miami Marlins...