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- In building a city for 100,000 people, he had four main goals: 1) to create a fully self-sustaining city, not just a better suburb, where residents would both live and work, 2) to respect the land, 3) to produce the most accommodating environment for the growth of people, and 4) to make a profit.
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James Rouse. James Wilson Rouse (April 26, 1914 – April 9, 1996) was an American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company. Rouse was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise -based philanthropist. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award, for ...
Apr 22, 1996 · His solution was the planned city of Columbia, Maryland, built on 14,000 acres of farmland he had acquired. Instead of impersonal malls and isolated housing developments, the town (current...
Apr 23, 2014 · Rouse believed that only a corporation had the infrastructure, resources, and influence to successfully create an entirely new city. To achieve these goals, Rouse didn’t just hire a team...
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Apr 22, 1996 · The '70s saw him resuscitating dying downtowns and preserving historic buildings with his concept of the festival marketplace, beginning with Faneuil Hall in Boston and Harborplace in...
James Rouse wanted to develop land for the good of society and the environment, not just for profit. In the nineteen sixties, he dreamed of building a complete new city between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. His company bought ten percent of the property in Howard County, Maryland.
Apr 10, 1996 · The new town of Columbia had its roots in the "garden city" planning concepts of an earlier time -- Rouse traveled in Europe to study its planned communities.
Apr 22, 1996 · But Rouse, who died last week at 81, wrought more changes and brought more hope to the American city than any builder of his era. He grew up in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland,...
