This edition of the Notre Dame Magazine speaks about the fact that in tomorrow’s cities and towns Notre Dame has taken a leading role in creating that blueprint. This talks about projects in upstate New York, but that’s not quite correct. I will go to this document here. This is a brochure produced by city planning associates formed by Tom Brademas, the former teacher at Notre Dame who introduced the Notre Dame Architecture students into planning of which their footprints are all over the country. Not only did Brademas teach a class, he also organized a form that moved around the Northeast, of people to talk about the value of planning – the essential part of planning – for how buildings are designed. In that presentation, we had Ed Bacon from the city of Philadelphia planning director, Charlie Blessing, the planning director from Detroit, Gerald Krane an urban designer who said that “You should not just build a building; you should put it in the context of its environment.” So the people that came out of this organization here have been working on that context for many years.
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One of which is sitting here holding the magazine - Patrick F Kane, John Rossi, and Bill Schafer formed KRS Associates. We functioned as collectors and net-workers for people from Notre Dame from all over the country to form offices in Tampa, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts. We would reach out and collect and we had a major influence in the patterns of human settlement around this country. The other one that’s there is the one that designed this brochure for City Planning Associates [CPA] – Ivan Osorio. Ivan worked with City Planning Associates down in Nicaragua where he was the director of planning for the reconstruction after the earthquake. He is now trying to organize a group of Notre Dame People to help with his next project which will be to build a canal through Nicaragua as an alternative to the Panama Canal which his over its capacity. So he will be seeking to network Notre-Dame people to put this together. Not only have we done it ourselves, but we drew on a network of Notre Dame People of which some big names are John Torti, Mike Divney of White Plains, New York. There are lots of Notre Dame Hands in the City Planning Business. Coming from this point here, not from what was noted in the magazine. We are making our fingerprints in making communities a better place to live, work, play, and serve. It’s been a good background for all of us. We need to do it again to encourage students to move in the planning business, to deal with buildings in context [in their environment], and to use them to build communities, not just build buildings. Thank You.”
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