Nathan Benderson Park is a 600-acre park that incorporates a 400-acre (160 ha) artificial lake just east of Lakewood Ranch across I-75. The lake is a rowing venue and has hosted numerous events including the 2017 World Rowing Championships.
Meetings are at the Lakewood Ranch Town Hall, 8175 Lakewood Ranch Blvd. The club does not charge dues.
Presentations usually run about 40 minutes and are followed by 20 minutes of discussion. Communications about the club can be addressed toRBTKLB@gmail.com
Meetings have been cancelled during Corona Virus 19.
Previous Meetings:
Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 7 PM:
“Louis D. Brandeis: The Controversial Progressive, Zionist, and Supreme Court Justice Whose Ideas and Actions Influenced American and International Life in Our Times.”
Presenter: Bob Toplin (Robert Brent Toplin)
Toplin recently taught courses at the University of Virginia. He was a professor of history at Denison University and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and has published several books and articles about American and international history.
FUTURE PROGRAMS - Postponed
March 17, 2020: Frank Cassells, former university president and history professor who lectured to us recently on Bertha Honore Palmer, returns to talk about his new book, “Creating Sarasota County.” After a distinguished career in university teaching and administration, Professor Cassells has become an expert on the history of Sarasota.
April 21, 2020. Dr. Terry Root, Stanford University professor, will speak ab out the history of the scientists’ and the public’s growing awareness of the problem of climate change. Dr. Root was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore for her work on the environment, and she played a key role in the making of Gore’s influential movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” She was the lead author of the important Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change.
New Towns are master planned from the beginning. They do not simply expand existing communities. There have been a number of new towns built around the world - the capitals of Brazil - Brasilia, and Canberra, the capital of Australia, and Washington DC were new towns that grew into major cities.
The new town concept was initially developed as the Garden City by Englishman Ebenezer Howard. The garden city would be a mix of residential, employment, and open space uses. Instead of cities simply expanding, he imagined planned cities that would be large enough to support industry, small enough so that access to work, school, play, and nature would be easy, and all interconnected by a network of roads and rails.
The graph above illustrated a concept for a series of Garden Cities around a larger central city.
Howard laid out his Garden City in concentric circles. Each city, he imagined, would take up 6,000 acres of land and house 32,000 people. The city itself would take up one-sixth of that space; the surrounding land would be dedicated to farms and certain civic institutions, including retirement homes.
Howard grew up in England, immigrated to America to try farming, and worked in Chicago as a court and newspaper reporter before returning home. He was involved in the social movements of his time, though, and his vision was immediately wildly popular. Within a decade, the first Garden City, Letchworth, had been started outside of London.
In his 1902 book, Garden Cities of To-Morrow, Howard was careful to designate his city outline as a “diagram only” or “merely suggested.” The actual plan of a Garden City would depend on the site. And though there’d never be a city built exactly as Howard suggested, in the decades that followed, his idea spread through America, inspiring the creation of garden cities in the outer reaches of hubs like New York; Pittsburgh; Boston, Washington, D.C.; and Cleveland.
Many of these places have since been subsumed as suburbs into sprawling urban growth. But urban planners still look to Howard’s ideas for inspiration. In 2014, Urbed, an urban design group in Manchester, England, imagined how a modern garden city might work.
In this plan, existing cities would expand by shooting off garden cities, each holding about 50,000 people and remaining within a 20-minute ride on public transportation from the city center. By expanding in these distinct nodules, the Urbed team wrote, cities could expand more sustainably, leaving intact large expanses of easily accessible green space—and, just as in Howard’s original vision, make sure that gardens were part of the city’s design from the outset. The planning and development of Lakewood Ranch followed the concepts of New Towns and Garden Cities. Lakewood Ranch has substantial open space and recreation - nearly 40% of the town is in lakes, wetlands, and recreation areas connected by paths. Lakewood Ranch has a very substantial business park and significant employment. And the town has several substantial commercial areas including Main Street.
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