It's that time of year again where the JRC, with the nomination help of City residents, recognizes the gardens that make Jamestown and its neighborhoods beautiful. In the next couple weeks you will see over 350 signs on display throughout Jamestown. If you nominated a...
Staff at the JRC love to find inspiration from cities all over the world. Sometimes, though, it's hard to translate ideas from very large cities into lessons that can be applied to smaller cities like Jamestown. In the past week, we stumbled across a video that...
Like most radical ideas, the Garden City was born from extreme circumstances. As Britain’s 19th century industrial cities swelled with people, festered with pollution and teemed with disease, a reformer named Ebenezer Howard proposed a simple but artful solution:...