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<br /> Editorlol note: Robert Stipe has been contributing articles to the National Alliance for many years, and for
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<br /> that we are quite thankful. His vision and perspective on preservation issues and on local planning are of
<br /> great value to preservation commissions and review boards. This article is the first in a two part series that
<br /> examines how preservation and planning coexist. Recent health problems prevent Bob from having the
<br /> physical presence he once had in America, but through his writings from Chapel Hill in The Alliance
<br /> Review and many other publications, Bob preaches on /
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<br /> immediate post-World War II years is an exam- This soft, open , rural landscape, as It appeared many years ago , has been one of Chapel Hill ,
<br /> ple . The town council had visited Williamsburg, North Carolina's cherished entryway views for more than half a century, It was and still is the pri-
<br /> thought it a fine model for Chapel Hill , and mar entrance to the town from the southeast, and its rural aspect stretches -for approximately a
<br /> engaged an architect to prepare some large,
<br /> watercolor elevations showing what the town would look like nished another example of this approach ; as - did Wacker's
<br /> if a1l�future building were done in this style. There was no Manual for Chicago earlier in the century. Indicating graphi-
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<br /> tions , no ordinance - the renderings merely hung on the walls when built is one important kind of planning, even though not
<br /> of the council room for many years . But within a short time often labeled as such . By" and large , we tend to overlook the
<br /> most - downtown buildings were constructed in this style, persuasive value of drawings as an important aVittpproach to
<br /> largely because of the persuasive value of a " public policy " policy-making. These can have a special relevance to historic
<br /> articulated by nothing more than some drawings hanging on preservation, since the potential for imaging the rehabilitation
<br /> a wall. of an old building or neighborhood is usually much greater
<br /> than the potential for imaging a new road , jail or firehouse.
<br /> On a much larger scale , Edmund Bacon' s famous 19.60s Perspective sketches and axonometric drawings al-
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<br /> model for the redevelopment of central Philadelphia fur- ly useful , since plans , sections and elevations are meaningless
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